Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.
The Overlooked: Nevrland
Director Gregor Schmidinger blessed us with this film on the festival circuit last year. It’s entranced us ever since. Nevrland follows Jakob, a gay, closeted 17-year-old living with his emotionally distant father and catatonic grandfather. As his depression mounts and mental illness looms, Jakob escapes into gay dating apps, dreaming of a liberated life. When he messages handsome photographer Kristjan, Jakob’s fantasy becomes a dangerous reality. Can he handle it? Nevrland features some of the most erotic, sensual scenes in recent memory, as well as striking visuals that would hold our interest, even if the story didn’t. Fortunately, it does, courtesy of Schmidinger’s subtle writing and command of tension. Simon Frühwirth also gives a charismatic debut performance. Creepy, sexy and always interesting, Nevrland feels like a Peter Pan flight into the underworld.
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Troysky
Flashy, but looks interesting…. One question. Why can’t the protagonist not always be smooth and skinny, but be a strong, hairy, scary guy? JUST like the guy I screwed in high school who was a lineman on the football team and always had a girlfriend he screwed – one evening, we were messing around and eventually i filled his hairy, beefy tight hole with my raging erection, as he himself was rock hard and leaking precum with his eyes closed and mouth open enjoying the eroticism and pleasure. Sounds like a fantasy, but it was true – we did. Why can’t THAT kind of guy be the young protagonist in a story like this, and blow people away. It’s also part of goddamned life – I lived it…and so did he with similar parental situation as in this film.