"Boy" is the latest film by the Filipino director Auraeus Solito who previously brought us the movie "The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros." Unlike that film, this one is far more modest, like a short story compared to a novel. The action takes place over a couple of days (and within 75 minutes) and revolves around the lives of two young men (both 18); one lives with his mother in a middle class home (by Philippine standards) and attends some sort of creative writing workshop where he hopes to become a poet, and the other lives in a cubicle in a slum far away from his family in the country where he works as a macho dancer and prostitute. The intersection of these two lives begins as a transaction and quickly evolves into a budding friendship; a symbiosis founded in loneliness and lust. When you think about it, as good a set of forces for attraction as any. It's a sweet little film with a nice mix of polish and rough edges.
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