Pillion, the new BSDM romance directed by Harry Lighton, still struck a chord with me. The film follows Colin (Harry Melling) as he falls into a submissive relationship with the hunky dom biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). From the jump, it’s clear that Lighton’s intention was to play with the trope of validity that surrounds discussions of dom/sub relationships. Can real love be found in such a skewed power dynamic? Is this just a kink that you’ll outgrow and one day leave behind to settle down, accepting a “normal” vanilla sex life?
On a surface level, the film delivers what people probably expect: a dom towering over his sub; the slow unzipping of his leather motorcycle pants with his sub on his knees in a cold, damp alleyway; each rip of the zipper bringing us closer to what we all came to see. I was edging at the edge of my seat, tickled by every other scene with my eyes wide and my hands pressed firmly in my lap. But as the zipper came down, I was surprised to find that my romantic, Cancer moon, Libra Venus heart was tickled too… read more.
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