Another boy, Neil, was regarded by his friends as a god, or as a bottomless black hole. Because his spirit never frustrated, even if he was repeatedly pressed down by the men in the town, even if he came to New York after leaving the town, he still met some men who used him as a sex toy. When he was subjected to sexual violence, when he felt tired of all this, he whispered to his mother in front of the deserted door. He is more like a boy who has not grown up, he does not escape, but dreams of the beauty of the past.
All the sexual scenes in the film are obscured and replaced by a single distorted face and body full of desire. Only the sexual violence occurred in the bathtub, and the blood flowing from Neil's broken head directly exposed the director's cruel way of revealing human nature. Only that scene is enough. The audience will remember the lost journeys experienced by the two young boys. These shocks are far beyond the gimmicks that some sex scenes can create.
All the shots finally ended when Brian and Neil returned to the home of the coach of the baseball team. Neil stretched out his hand to hug him when Brian recalled the real and painful convulsion. The zoomed-out shot of the two embracing each other, and the beautiful voice of the choir outside the house singing chants. In the end, Neil's monologue outside the camera caused me to fall into a long silence. The director has grasped too deeply and too deeply in this reflection, and any analysis is powerless.
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