Swim

The music was a great addition.

Technically, it was very good, albeit a bit of over-dramatic. And the boy is rather good looking, could almost call him cute.

Storyline: Typical hetero bullshit with their standard obsession with breasts and cleavage.

Music: Quite interesting, I rather liked it … but couldn’t see any parallel with “swimming.”

I liked this film. It opened that psychotic world of children for adults to see. Interesting he should get an erection from this rather than feel he killed her through his rejection. Who knows… but I liked it a lot.

I got a little weirded out by the Necrophilia. What does this say about his behavior when he gets older?
And I’ve never quite gotten the straight guys like lesbians thing.

I’ve seen this clip before, but can’t remember where. I found that it was rather Oedipal in the he was fantasizing about his mother kissing the other woman. For him to get an erection from THAT was what I found odd.
Great coming of age clip, though, it showed typical teen reaction to beautiful women and how they fantasize about sexual situations with them.

I am dissapointed with this posting. I come to this blog to feel a connection and understanding with others in the facet of my life that is my orientation.

If i wanted to observe and see a heterosexual teenage boys desires towards women, I would go to school and pay attention to the boy sitting next to me’s conversation. In addition to this I would also watch some American television.

To come to a gay blog dedicated to satisfying a mostly gay audience and entertaining them and seeing a video about heterosexuals… pretty much bores, disgusts, and bothers me.

It’s Swim by Oh No Ono.

I think it is about sexual awakening, awareness, and curiosity mainly, but there are other themes going on. There is an Oedipal element in the boy’s attraction to his mother, although the entire Oedipal complex is not portrayed. The comments of the men who are eying the boy’s mother underline the pervasive and fundamental influence of sexuality in the everyday lives of humans, or at least of males. Humans are sexual creatures first and foremost, and much of what we experience in life relates to our sexuality or is interpreted through the filter of sexuality.

The social and psychological effects of the sexual attraction/rejection dynamic is explored in the death of the nurse. The boy transforms the scene of his mother trying to resuscitate the nurse who collapsed into a scene of amorous sensuality. I’m not sure if this is playing on a lesbian angle, or just genderless sensuality, about which the boy’s awareness is growing.

As his awareness grows, so too does his arousal. He reacts by covering his erection in a display of embarrassment. Besides being the best way to indicate the boy’s arousal to the viewer in light of laws and the prudishness of most individuals in society, it also hearkens back to the Oedipal complex and the fear of castration by a father who may be angered at his son’s attraction to his wife. (I’m not suggesting that Freud’s ideas are necessarily right, but there is some reason why humans continue to instill or transmit to their offspring feelings of fear and furtiveness around certain expressions of sexuality. Pity though it is.)

I enjoyed the clip. I’m gay, but I’m also human, so I can relate to the story regardless of the genders of the characters. This portrayal will have more widespread appeal than one that featured same sex characters. It is simply a fact that most people find themselves predominantly on the heterosexual portion of the spectrum of sexual preference.

Ewwww. Women kissing. Yuck.