"Some of these ways are obvious-although they're no more explicit than an episode of Heated Rivalry , their kinky nature still makes the film's gay sex scenes feel quite brazen. (How many films have you seen that frame group sex as a romantic gesture?) Others are subtler, but just as radical, as writer-director Harry Lighton uses the story of a timid man swept off his feet by a hot, emotionally unavailable biker to expand the definition of what "happily ever after" can mean."
"When we first meet Colin (Harry Melling), he clearly isn't happy. Things could be worse-his parents Peggy (Lesley Sharp) and Pete (Douglas Hodge) accept his sexuality, and Peggy even sets her son up on awkward blind dates like the one that opens the film. But, aside from singing in a barbershop quartet with his dad, this awkward and passive man has little to look forward to in life."
"Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) doesn't belong at this suburban watering hole. He doesn't belong anywhere, really, except for the hypermasculine fantasy world of a Tom of Finland painting. Ray is hot, suspiciously hot, and Colin is confused as much as anything when Ray instructs him to meet him the next night in the town square. Within minutes, Colin is down on his knees, and Lighton films Ray unzipping his pants in breathless, anticipatory closeup."
A timid, passive man named Colin lives at home, sings in a barbershop quartet with his father, and writes parking tickets while craving excitement. On Christmas Eve he meets Ray, a hypermasculine, emotionally unavailable biker who initiates immediate, brazen sexual encounters and a submissive-dominant dynamic marked by a padlock chain. Kinky and group sex scenes are presented with a wholesome veneer, treating transgressive desires as legitimate romantic expression. The relationship challenges suburban expectations and expands the definition of happily ever after by portraying unconventional sexual practices as authentic routes to intimacy and fulfillment.
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