The film presents a certain world and one person within it, layered and full of contradictions. “Jonathan Agassi”, like the man himself, does not beat around the bush or commiserate with the audience. Anyone who’s read a description of the movie, which follows a decade in the life of Israeli gay-porn star Jonathan Agassi, but who expects some refinement or concealment, will be disappointed. The opening scene of “Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life”, a new documentary film by Tomer Heymann, leaves no room for doubt. The dissonance and the dissociation between their actions and their attitudes leave the viewer aghast. It is not a sensual gesture, seemed to generate pleasure, but more like the polishing of a tool, with one hand consoling, with fluttering strokes, the other rubbing. There is nothing erotic about it, it’s purely mechanical, almost totally incidental. As part of the preparation for the show that is about to begin, a live sex act on the club’s stage, they are handling their penises, aiming to create and maintain an erection. While this updating and consolation take place, the two are engaged in something else as well.
“Still working in porn?” The second man replies: “No, last year my sister got cancer, I couldn’t do anything.” “Is she OK now?” asks the first man. Apparently the two have met before: “Are you still living in Barcelona?” one asks the other. As they sit next to each other on a couch they engage in conversation. As they wait to go on stage, loud bass sounds and electronic music are heard clearly in the room. So, let's see who, on the celebrity front, gay men would like to work their magic upon to bring into the fantastical rainbow colored world of being gay.In an inner room in a darkened club sit two young men in work overalls. Hello! Have you ever seen the embarkation of an Atlantis gay cruise? Those boys have more luggage-loaded with party outfits for 52 events that will happen over seven days-than the Karadashians had for every season of all their reality shows. The beauty of these kindred spirits-gay men and heterosexual women-is they can both conjure up lustful, romantic, and sometimes 50 shades of naughty they'd like to experience with male celebrities.Īh, but alas, the gay male mind is so much more creative when it comes to the world of fantasy. You're gay if you feel the need to avoid the vajayjay at all costs.
Obviously, she hasn't read the first line in How To Know You're A Gay Man For Dummies book. This is not that much different than the heterosexual woman who swears she has the magical, mystical power to flip a gay man straight. On the other hand, many a gay man swears he has the magical, mystical power to flip a straight man gay, even if just for a moment.
Needless to say, for the most part the heterosexual woman has the home field advantage in this arena. What do they have in common? Style, bitchy diva moments, cosmos, and of course, the undying boudoir fantasies about heterosexual male celebrities. A gay man and a heterosexual woman walk into a bar.