the day the fun stops
by Douglas Messerli
José Carlos Henríquez (screenplay), Leo Mena
(director) Putito / 2014 [4 minutes]
She doesn’t
like the fact that my job is so easy, he argues, doing something he enjoys
and gives so much pleasure. A being paid for it as well!
Throughout
his short monologue we see our “Putito,” José Carlos Henríquez, walking through
the streets or taking the subway or bus, sometimes with his friend El Marquez,
on his way to and from various appointments where he has sex and sometimes
shares drugs.
Most of
this work is filmed in garish reds; there are club dances, drugs, and several
images of cocks coming inside and out of our boy whore.
What harm
he is doing, the Putito begs to know? His mother wants him to crawl up upon the
cross of sacrifice, while he is simply enjoying life. What could be wrong with
that?
The
deepest this little film gets is forcing the viewer to respond to that question,
in some respects a truly profound one offered up by almost every young person
who can’t imagine that there might come a day when the fun stops.
Los Angeles, November 15, 2025
Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (November
2025).
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