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It's called Follow Her. It's in film festivals now, and they're looking for a distribution deal. The trailer doesn't show tickling, but it's here:
https://youtu.be/UtBl3nV1A74
Without giving plot spoilers, I can say that the protagonist is making money by making secret livestreams of horny guys. These guys book her for "modeling" shoots as a front for doing other, surprise, pervy things. Turns out though, while they think they're punking her, she's actually punking them, by pretending to be oblivious to their ulterior motives, but then live streaming it all to build social media followers. In the main such episode, she was tied up, then tickled.
Then later in the script, she ties up a guy and tickles him, and at that moment, you're not sure whether she's purely doing it to get information from him, or whether she's also aroused by it.
I didn't find the tickling scenes hot at all, as both were presented without any psychological breakdown -- it was more what I call "athletic tickling," where it goes from 0 to Spinal Tap 11 instantly, i.e. from nothing to instant screaming, then back to nothing, then back to screaming. But I was most interested in how the fetish was portrayed as sexuality. Ultimately, the lead character isn't presented as being at all sexually turned on by either her lee or ler experience. The tickling is initially framed as something just for weirdos... then later she explains to another character that she's come to understand it as a game for "power."
The director gave a talk at the Austin Film Festival where she said the film's writer (who was also the lead actress) herself had once agreed to be paid to be tickled in real life, although the trickery aspect was invented for the film. While not exactly a positive or even accepting overall portrayal of tickling... to me, this film did more to normalize this little hobby of ours than the "tickld" doc from a few years ago. I wouldn't be surprised to next see more of these. Filmmakers are always looking for new ideas to explore, and even this level of treatment, as far as I know, has never been tried in a movie before.
https://youtu.be/UtBl3nV1A74
Without giving plot spoilers, I can say that the protagonist is making money by making secret livestreams of horny guys. These guys book her for "modeling" shoots as a front for doing other, surprise, pervy things. Turns out though, while they think they're punking her, she's actually punking them, by pretending to be oblivious to their ulterior motives, but then live streaming it all to build social media followers. In the main such episode, she was tied up, then tickled.
Then later in the script, she ties up a guy and tickles him, and at that moment, you're not sure whether she's purely doing it to get information from him, or whether she's also aroused by it.
I didn't find the tickling scenes hot at all, as both were presented without any psychological breakdown -- it was more what I call "athletic tickling," where it goes from 0 to Spinal Tap 11 instantly, i.e. from nothing to instant screaming, then back to nothing, then back to screaming. But I was most interested in how the fetish was portrayed as sexuality. Ultimately, the lead character isn't presented as being at all sexually turned on by either her lee or ler experience. The tickling is initially framed as something just for weirdos... then later she explains to another character that she's come to understand it as a game for "power."
The director gave a talk at the Austin Film Festival where she said the film's writer (who was also the lead actress) herself had once agreed to be paid to be tickled in real life, although the trickery aspect was invented for the film. While not exactly a positive or even accepting overall portrayal of tickling... to me, this film did more to normalize this little hobby of ours than the "tickld" doc from a few years ago. I wouldn't be surprised to next see more of these. Filmmakers are always looking for new ideas to explore, and even this level of treatment, as far as I know, has never been tried in a movie before.
