Synopsis
Wichita... Amarillo.... Albuquerque... Bakersfield... San Bernardino... Los Angeles...
Hank, a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast.
1976 Directed by Tim Kincaid
Hank, a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast.
Le secret des routiers
An awakening. The first and most freeform of Gage's trilogy, less a narrative than a series of truckstop and roadside encounters as Richard Locke's Hank slowly pushes his (presumably) straight new hire into opening up to his repressed fantasies on the road. As cliched as Gage's live-action Tom of Finland imagery may seem now, it still feels political -- a deliberate rejection of the stereotypical sissy image and an advocation for sexual fluidity that feels more progressive than ever.
A GAY DREAM because...of course of course it can only be a dream right? Its accurate that the sex we see here, amongst daydreaming truckers on the road, is left ambiguous as to whether or not it actually happened outside of the horny minds of the men we see...it couldn't happen could it? Not here in good old 1976? Maybe in the big city but no...surely not out here in this wide open space...for all to see? Surely we can only dream as we stare out the window at the beautiful boy in his beautiful car, getting hard to his beautiful smut.
Surely there is no real consummation to be had between you and I...not possible...surely there is no real magic rest stop…
Road Trip Playlist: Kansas
Very dreamy trucker movie. It’s never clear if any of the dialogue is actually spoken out loud, or being communicated telepathically. And I don’t know if it was just the copy I watched, but the whole movie sounds echo-y too. It gave it a unique tone for sure. You never know if all the sex is real or imagined. It also had the sound of an empty bottle being blown into on the soundtrack, which tied it to the last movie I watched, The Empty Man. I guess this was also about creating a Man who was Empty (of cum, from all the fucking).
Some of the sex stuff in this is a little repetitive (way too many handjobs in my opinion, and dare I say an over reliance on slow-mo ejaculations), but this is a Joe Gage film, so what you do get is a really cinematic, strange, hypnotising and of course effing hot piece of erotica. Richard Locke was very attractive in this one.
Look, I'm not into watersports but I'm also not gonna dock points for a piss scene when it's otherwise perfect.
if gay porn were shot as artistically and cinematically as this then sign me tf up
damn those men were terrible at trucking, they just kept stopping for gay sex
017: First film in Joe Gage’s “working man” trilogy wasn’t what I expected. Then again, as a CIS dude watching gay porn, this isn’t the first time. It feels like pretty basic stuff as a long haul trucker turns out his young apprentice, schooling them on all the ways they can get off on the road. The sex for the most part is pretty basic as well, none of the shocks found in Halsted's work and not really any elevation that Poole strived for. That said, it’s presented as such a hyper-masculine yet natural world (also without the hyper-aggressive tone most "alpha" features have) that the film still pulls you in. Mostly narrated by lead Richard Locke, it felt like…