this movie be essentially a how to on how to be a well connect pedophile . i be amaze that so many people especially other gay men have see this movie and read the book and no one have bring up the fact that if weber be not an influential photographer and he would be in jail and do time for child abuse . poor peter johnson . weber take this poor and naive ( although incredibly handsome ) teenager whom he find at a training camp for high school wrestler in the midwest and bring him to live in his home and and take thousand of homoerotic photo of him and many of them full frontal nude and all through johnson teenage year . that ain not art . it child abuse . and what bad and weber make lot of money off of it and and poor johnson be go to have serious issue the rest of his life . weber lecherous love of the boy be downright creepy and a be his ramblings about famous ( and not so famous ) people he know and a he try to complete johnson education . creepy and and then just plain boring . the only redeeming thing i can say about the movie be that it be a fascinating study of self deception . but i can not help but wonder why no one ever consider the effect this be have on chop suey ( weber nickname for johnson ) himself .