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Re: Question about For a Lost Soldier

Posted by diogenes on 2025-January-3 18:01:04, Friday
In reply to Question about For a Lost Soldier posted by mark194 on 2025-January-3 15:46:58, Friday
It's been a long time since I saw the film, but wasn't the idea that the photo which included Walt in it was kept by Jeroen; but that it was his assistant who had the idea that if one were to blow up this tiny portion of the photo then one could find out about Walt by his tag?

With regard to the grimace, and the biting of the finger, I think this is just a recognition that being anally penetrated for the first time can be a little uncomfortable, even if it is desired or welcomed. I remember it being so for me. You might like to read Steven Freeman's review of the movie (published on the GLTTA site - link below). I agree with what Freeman says about this scene, which I've pasted below (but I do not agree with his overall assessment of the film in his review on the page linked - "by no stretch of the imagination a great film, or even a particularly interesting one" - since the film means a great deal to me):
Horseplay in the shower one rainy day leads inevitably to deeper intimacies, and the camera — astonishingly for a 1990s commercial film — finds the two of them in bed in the act of sexual intercourse (usually called worse things in the vocabulary of disgust). A matter of moments on the screen, the interlude is neither over-dramatised nor romanticised. It is as casual and intimate as a stolen kiss, and is not spoken of again by either one. Jeroen’s reactions, as he stands contemplating himself in the mirror afterwards, display no shock, fear or shame, no self-disgust, but only a reflective puzzlement, that so much importance is invested in such a little business. ... [Jeroen] is treated shabbily by Walt, not in the act of anal sex, but in the act of abandonment...

Steven Freeman on For a Lost Soldier - review begins half way down the page:
https://greek-love.com/index.php/films/special-friendships-by-steven-freedman/chapters-21-30/i-am-the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-though-you-howl-it-back-at-me

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  • (https site) Steven Freeman on Voor een verloren soldaat
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