NOTE: THIS IS A LIST OF FILMS THAT ONLY REFER TO THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ENTRY IN REGARDS TO THE SAME SUBJECT, FORMULATED ENTIRELY BY LESBIAN FILMS. Keep the lights on is a film about all those arcane things we do when the lights are off. Hello!-a voice, tender in texture but possessed by crude lust whispers in the dark.ĭarkness is a perfect blanket for deep feelings of revulsion one in particular being, shame. It is the speech of a man brimming and mumbling litanies of sexual venture to someone else, someone non-present in the same room. We listen to him convey little details such as: how big his dick is, how nasty a top he is, where he is located and how fast can he get to that other place. The line has been cut off, now we know he´s been on the phone all this time. He dials again, waits for the tone, someone picks up and, he starts all over again.
This man is Erick, a Danish filmmaker residing in New York City. He is a care-free spirit working on an endless documentary, sucking and dwindling on daddy´s money, and filling up his nights with random, sexual encounters. His soft-spoken gentleness and inviting demeanor are persistently slashed out by his morbidity and his offhand craving for anonymous orgasms. He meets Paul through one of these “phone sex sites”, a man, who also drifts within the shadows of his unwanted reality, perhaps hovering even deeper than Erick: he has a girlfriend, and he is addicted to crack. Even through such crawly circumstances, Paul and Erick embark on a tumultuous 9 year relationship.