William Mayer | Eu e o Cara da Piscina (Me and the Pool Boy) / 2010

hot sex and the seduction

by Douglas Messerli

 

William Mayer (screenwriter and director) Eu e o Cara da Piscina (Me and the Pool Boy) / 2010 [8 minutes]

 

Sometimes I truly wonder from what planet the creators the brief commentary about films on IMDb and other such services have come from. Me and the Pool Boy states, unapologetically, “Guilherme feels attracted to his best friend, but is afraid to tell him that. Through the internet, he discovers a way to fulfill his desire.”

     No one might know that Guilherme and the pool boy have previously been best friends, and no one certainly after the first 3 minutes of this film might have imagined that he had any difficult “telling” his “his best friend” about his sexual desires.

     This film, in fact, begins with a series of highly homosexual encounters between the young boy who we later discover is Guilherme (Daniel Aldaya) and the so-called “pool boy” (Mateus Almanda), as the two of them (and perhaps others) heartily engage in every sexual encounter that might be imaginable, kisses, humping, and from the sound of it, deep sexual penetration.

      Perhaps this is just a glimpse of what follows, but since we already know that the two boys have thoroughly found a way to engage in deep sex, it hardly surprises us when Guilherme, sitting at the local pool, becomes fascinated with a boy who showers and seduces the only other person at the pool.

     I’d suggest that William Mayer’s Brazilian film is nothing but a come on for some later far more sexually explicit film, but the sweet interchange between the two boys—which may or may not be a computer fantasy—is the pretense of this short work, so I guess we should just ignore everything else it portrays.

     Otherwise, I’d argue that this is the only film I’ve see that presents the sexual engagement of its character’s activities upfront, and then proceeds to reveal the seductions which led to those acts.

For me, the computer (a very large and boxy kind of typewriter) only intruded on what really happened between these two young men, who may or may not have known one another previously.

 

Los Angeles, October 2, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (October 2024).