Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Anthology
Today's film is an engaging series of encounters with different types of gay men.
Yes, we have types. Or perhaps different perspectives and experience. One size does not fit all.
The observer/narrator here is a hustler who pays a business call on a closeted gay man and then gets lost in the building.
As he tries to find the way out, he encounters other men in the building and spends some time with them.
Not all these meetings involve sex but most do.
This allows us to have our cake and eat it too. We get to see "the gays" and we also get titillated along the way.
I do not mean to be cynical about this. Two reasons why this device is a good one. First, a good hustler listens to the client and this guy is good. We hear each of the men's stories. The second is that the hustler has a peak experience of sorts. He sees himself in the others' eyes. An eye opener.
I like this film a lot. It is fun and it is sexy and the star Ben Bonefont is not a clone but a rather real young man who, along with us, takes this all in.
The ending is a bit of surprise and I will not ruin things except to say I think it will make you happy. All whores do not get punished for their supposed sins. That is in another world of which I am not a part. Nor are these people.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
