a heap of human flesh lie asleep on a red pillow . this be the hunk of naked meat that be little joe and a new york hustler who live with his bisexual wife and baby child . the film follow a day in his life and after he wake from sleep by his wife demand that he go out and do the traditional male thing be a breadwinner . but the use she want to put the bread to be to pay for her new girlfriend abortion . we certainly aren not in the traditional family unit here . after play with his child and joe hit the street to cruise for john . the client come thick and fast represent the ordinary gay man who want to meet him again because they work well together and the old english classical scholar who pay $ 100 to see joe pose like an ancient greek athlete while the female topless dancer who blow joe then boast about be rap while the age gym bunny who doesn not think that what he and joe do together be queer . after a hard day work and joe return home exhaust and only to be put down by his wife and the girlfriend . he go back to sleep a they harp and undermine him . flesh be fascinate a it take what be a traditional classical mainstream structure it have an inciting incident ( the money for the abortion ) and set up and a confrontation and a resolution ( albeit a very downbeat one ) and even a protagonist with a strongly motivate goal and and then proceeds to concentrate on the detail of the day to day routine of these people who be perfectly ordinary to themselves but extraordinary to most mainstream people . it all seem very authentic and natural it hard to see the acting and the actor be so fully be their role but yet the whole thing be a piece of cunning artifice a beautifully draw portrait or an intricately carve statue . director morrissey carefully plant every incident and every encounter around his theme of human flesh become packaged commodity but with such cunning slight of hand that you almost do not notice him do it . the wife package joe sexual organ and the old englishman lament a long go order of classical beauty which create art and poetry from human fleshly beauty and the transvestite friend of the stripper package themselves a woman whilst read a hollywood magazine in which real woman be package a product while the gym bunny buy joe friendship and affection and think artificial porn be real and can not tell and a we can not and that joe be perform his friendship and intimacy for the cash . the film itself present itself a the ne plus ultra of cinematic realism but what we might as well be deal with here be fine art or an early example of concept art . the genius a word not lightly use of morrissey be to find a way of take warhol arty pretension to film making and which be interesting sure but boring a hell and and make them into saleable product which remain amongst the most intriguing work of cinema art ever make commercial can label flesh and trash and heat with a product label andy warhol which sell an idea about the product as much a the product itself . yet just a you reel from morrissey cynicism and you be spellbind by his ability to still maintain the high of standard and depth of meaning . the constant what seem like camera flash continually draw attention to the filmic nature of what one be witness and yet you get draw into the illusion all the same flesh be surely one of the most extraordinary piece of cinema magic to ever spellbind an audience .