when set out this film and director mary harron seemingly have the goal of clearly document the progress of bettie page career and from early modelling day to leave modelling to go back home after the senate hearing on juvenile delinquency and her religious rediscovery in the 50 and and so intent be she to get all of these fact on screen in the time allow she seem to have miss out on take any time to explain anything in depth . when you think of someone who have page career you would think that there would be plenty to discuss and her reason and decision and life event and personal trauma and but harron avoids any kind of personal exploration of the character . in the first fifteen minute or so of the film there be brief hint of child abuse and domestic violence and a gang rape and but these be all rush past and then never refer to again . you get the impression that harron and guinevere turner ( co writer ) want to gloss over anything that wasn not glamorous and flatter . you go into this film expect to gain an insight into who the person behind the poster be and but all you be give be a list of thing that she do and recreation of some of her most famous photo shoot . all in all the film really frustrate you a you watch and desperately wait for some extra layer to reveal itself . how do she balance her religion with her job . what make this young tennessee girl move from model into bondage photography . the film simply show her go to another modelling agency and put on whatever she tell and but surely it would have involve some shock and deliberation and this be after all the 50 . it seem to me that harron be try to make a point about how tame all this be by today standard ( page never take any photo of explicit sexual action ) and how the reaction some give this kind of thing be really overzealous and although this be true and she never actually make it seem sordid in the eye of others . today we look at a young girl pose topless and think nothing off it and but we should have get some sort of feel about how shocking it would have be to a contemporary audience . this woman be a central part of a senate hearing on juvenile delinquency and but no one be ever really show a shocked . basically i leave this film just think how tame it be . harron and turner have manage to avoid anything that might be unpleasant to a viewer . they come across a two lifelong fan of miss page and be desperate to make sure that nothing and absolutely nothing and could possibly put a bad light on their heroine and and have therefore avoid any in depth probe into who she really be . ( before and after her career there be report of her violent nature and mental problem ) and all that leave be the string of event that make up her career and without any substance whatsoever behind it .