I think this film touches something that many boys who grew up gay can connect with. Innocence on the cusp of sexuality.
A little boy, fascinated by the charming, handsome father of a friend at a family beach vacation. The boy becomes lost in fantasies about the grown up. Not really sexual fantasies, but a mysterious attraction. A hidden desire. A wish.
The boy wants something, perhaps ambiguous, of the man.
There is desire burgeoning in the young boy that belies or contradicts his childlike innocence.
I thought the film worked very well to capture the undercurrents of longing in children, before they even know what the longing is.
A little boy, fascinated by the charming, handsome father of a friend at a family beach vacation. The boy becomes lost in fantasies about the grown up. Not really sexual fantasies, but a mysterious attraction. A hidden desire. A wish.
The boy wants something, perhaps ambiguous, of the man.
There is desire burgeoning in the young boy that belies or contradicts his childlike innocence.
I thought the film worked very well to capture the undercurrents of longing in children, before they even know what the longing is.