Andy Warhol, the pop artist that said that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes gives to actor DeVeren Bookwalter nothing more than 35 minutes of fame in a short and experimental film called "Blow Job" where his character facial expressions are the only thing shown on screen while he's receiving oral sex from a stranger off screen (since it's a Warhol work we can assure that is another guy who's doing the act and in the IMDb's credits the name of Willard Maas is credited as 'the giver').
It's a single shot with Bookwalter's head, while getting a blow job. He smiles, looks at the camera, lights a cigarette, seems to talk for a few moments (there's no sound, we can't hear a thing) and he enjoys the whole long act. This simple description sounds boring but the film, surprisingly, is not.
It's a daring work of the 1960's and I believe is the responsible for most films including a sex scene without being too graphic, we've just have the sense that something is happening. If today we have that classic facial expression of a guy receiving oral sex, lifting his head in pleasure, being showed in countless films is because of this little classic.
It might be a boring film for many viewers without nothing much too show? Yes, it can be. It can make you think about other things, or even in the behind the scenes of the film, after all there always be people who want to know if the sexual act happened or the actor was really good with his acting. And Bookwalter's acting is great, I mean, can you imagine portraying one single movement throughout a whole film? He was able to use a lot of his expressions (thankful to his good looks too), putting back his head, moving on and on, making subtle movements with his hand, and all these little changes makes his acting pretty good.
Exciting, interesting, a little bit gloomy among many other things, here's a great film directed by Andy Warhol. 10/10
