In “Pamela, A Love Story,” Pamela Anderson proves the importance of receipts

There's been a trend the last few years that's both as infuriating as it is validating: how the world did women wrong. Any documentary worth its footage is going to try to shed a new light on its subject — and Netflix's "Pamela, A Love Story" does so, presenting a more thoughtful, haunting and emotional side of Anderson's story. Pamela Anderson in "Pamela, A Love Story" Anderson didn't simply write her life down in pink-covered notebooks and dozens of yellow legal pads, she recorded it too. But "Pamela, A Love Story" uses the same medium, Anderson's home movies, to set the record straight about the sex tape, that she never consented to it, never profited off it and still doesn't know who stole it. "Pamela, A Love Story" has similar montages of male, late night hosts — and Matt Lauer — insistently pressuring Anderson about her breasts.