one of the most sublime of american masterpiece and morrissey open the film by sexualize dallesandro and with his open mouth snore on a pillow . we wonder and be he come off a heroin high . we just see his face and then and flash and his body and flash and his naked rear . i can not think of another film that use this flash blip form of edit so well to create a hypnotic and druggy mood and an edit method that work wonderfully a both pacing and style . after that introduction and when dallesandro open his mouth and his accent be jar we expect him to be some kind of soft spoken androgyne while instead and he get the voice of a street thug morrissey isn not comfortable let our assumption go unchecked . the lengthy opening be very sexy and playful it a combination of martial trouble and dallesandro fascinate lip rubbing kiss and and early morning sexual escapade while it all kind of flow together and if not always smoothly and then emotionally realistically . what i get from this be the same a what i get from the 400 blow when i first saw it this be like a 20 something continuation of that story . there a sense of camaraderie between the flesh seller and the buyer while when dallesandro walk the street look for men ( to fund his wife abortion ) there the feeling of a secret handshake a boy make deal with each other . i never find it boring and though nothing happen nothing happen brilliantly and the boy hang around and a they do and wait for trick . the main trick that dallesandro find be fascinate to watch and use greek description and only touch his back and a form of aesthetic body worship on the man part . it also dreadfully funny ( i be not talk to an empty bed and be i . ) . it one of the most revealing scene in the movie in any movie and i think while certainly any movie deal with sex and sex for sale . when dallesandro eye seem red and swollen and we can not tell if it because he drink and ashamed and embarrass and or all . the conversation in the film be cut up they do not matter . ( the film be silent in a few scene and some of the most poignant and beautiful you may ever experience . ) yet when morrissey choose to include one and the way he include it ( we sort of piece it together ) and it startle and such a one conversation between dallesandro and a newbie hustler and neither of them ever mention the word gay or hustler . what follow be a scene where we listen to a pair of transvestite a dallesandro get service this just after explain to the newbie get use to the job . dallesandro be a subject worthy of the attention pay to him and both by his client and morrissey . he less than effective a an actor and in the sense of act a performing and but as far a reveal something he incredible he someone we immediately want to feel above and yet we go through his experience and with all their complexity and and be force to try and know him . he the kind of blank slate that be draw to but can not get a hold on . and of course he incredibly strike forget everything else and this be partially a testament to the beauty of the male body and dallesandro gorgeous torso and permanently erect nipple . the movie have one devastate scene and but like everything else you can not really master it a girl say that she be rap and and her only self defense be in say that and have the rapist only ask for sex and woo her and he would have get a good lay . it shatter . the movie have feel for everyone and but even good than that and it not merely sympathetic and it actually attempt to help u understand human being and without ever dictate what it be be mean to be understand . it neither look down on nor glamorize the people within the film . it feel inclusive when we see joe arm around a transvestite . when he read a letter ( he talk about not get past grade eight at one point ) and he utterly charm and a he pause on a word . then say and woteva and and continue . you can learn something more profound from the interaction between dallesandro and one of his client in term of gay straight relationship than you can from any case study . here we have the young boy who smile ( his top lip disappear a he do so ) when a 30 something gym bunny korean war veteran run his finger through his hair while it a scene that feel very profound and this adult man share something with a young version of himself it not two gay men together and or a gay man pay a straight man and it something else you can not put your finger on while question of sexuality be beside the point . ( never before have pop a pimple seem a affectionate . ) after share something with each other emotionally ( though with dallesandro and since he there for money and it never apparent why he there while though he never less than sincere and which may be his most disarming quality ) and so . can you help me out . the man say sure . i do not mean my pant . positive .