Title: a gem of intelligence and sensitivity
Review: People should have to take an IQ test before reviewing a movie like this. The title character may be a "stupid boy", but he is smarter than some previous reviewers. He knows he is limited.The boy must have been brought up by a television set. He has arrived in late adolescence profoundly ignorant, but conscious and ashamed of it. He tries to acquire an identity from the maternal woman with whom he lives, and from the men whom he charges for sex. As he proceeds, he becomes more ambivalent about his gay identity.The gentle apposition of conflicting emotions, the poignant, not prurient use of nudity, the sweet acting, the loving insights of the filmmakers into the character, establish this film as a penetrating and sympathetic work of art.
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