i be not go to lie . despite look interesting and i watch the notorious bettie page because i have hear ( and it be fairly obvious just by look at a synopsis or anything about the film ) and that gretchen mol get naked in it . i have never be a fan of mol and but i can not resist see an attractive woman take off her clothes . yes and that may be pervert and but it a theme and ideal central to the very core of the movie and and help to make the film a lot strong than it probably should be . the film chronicle bettie page ( mol ) life from her physical and sexually abused day a a kid in high school in the south and and onto her new life in new york . she want to be an actress and but she have to pay bill too . after take a few seemingly innocent shot on a local beach and page slowly become a modeling sensation and and quickly jump from suggestive photo to sexually provocative pin up photograph . i feel the briefness of the film ( just over ninety minute ) be both a curse and blessing for it . on one hand and the film never overstay it welcome . you get to know page within a few short minute and and then it get right into her model career and do not look back . but it curse the film as well and because we never really get a chance to grasp everything that be go on . she just kind of jump around between model shoot and the controversy that they create before jump right into the major senate investigation that take up much of the final act of the film . you just sit there and and attempt to absorb it all and and more just come right at you . it feel like the filmmaker want to summarize too much material in too short a film . it beg for long sequence and and beg more for even long explanation . it do not feel rush while it just do not feel all there . another bit of a fumble and although a bit more of a curiosity and be the use of colour throughout the film . the majority be in black and white and but frequently and splash and sequence of colour do emerge . but while this may have be do a a symbolic gesture early on and it become a bit of a distraction a it continually pop up later on before cut back to black and white . it get confuse and and become more of a tedious interference than anything else a the film go on . while it may fumble a bit with the action and the film stay dead on with it theme . page and who i know little to nothing about and be play off innocently and and her world be exactly the same . save for a few shady character during her teenage year and everyone she encounter be an innocent and and everything she do have an innocence to it . i never think i would look at full frontal nudity a be something that be anything other than vulgar and deprave and but here and it truly be something to marvel at . all at once and it be beautiful and innocent . even the most sexually perverted moment in the film ( albeit tame compare to today standard ) have an innocent and angelic feeling to them . there be just something about the way mol nude body be portray that it just strike at such a different chord than nude body in other film . it just feel so natural and so wondrous and that if there be any reason to watch the film and it would be to see the spectacular depiction of mol body a she play bettie page . the other reason be mol herself . a page and she exemplify that 1950 southern belle everyone know ( or can at least imagine ) . despite her profession and she be still a normal person and and still look at herself a be religious . mol play her exactly to the right amount of squeaky cleanliness need to make this character feel authentically from the 1950 . she play her with such matter of factness that you would be hard set not to think that mol be actually bettie page herself . unfortunately and the support cast have very little moment to shine and and be totally overshadow by mol wonderful performance . none of them do anything particularly pleasing and and none of them really have that same strength in their role a mol do . this be not really the fault of the actor and but more of the fact that they do not have much to work with . many of them be totally recognizable and such a oscar nominee david strathairn ( in a role a little too close to one of his good performance ) and sarah paulson ( recent golden globe nominee for studio 60 on the sunset strip ) and and character actor lili taylor and but you would be hard set to really place their performance in be anything other than okay . none of these character be really developed and and they really just stand a character cut out who mol run loop around a she pick up steam in her brilliant performance . really and this film be worthwhile for it portrayal of nudity and and for gretchen mol excellent performance of bettie page . everything else be a bit too muddled and awkward than it should be . have more work be do to develop support character and not just blast right through the story and this film would have be a much well biographical film . a it stand and it be just a vehicle for mol to really rise into the stratosphere of popularity a an actress . positive .