The new film, Pillion, which Hard Copy reported on last June, is starting to receive positive reviews. The film tells the story of the relationship between Colin, a timid man, who is swept off his feet by Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker. Ray, a dom, takes Colin on as his submissive. After opening in the UK, The Guardian asked several members of the kink community their opinion about the depiction of BDSM in the film. As observed by one of the several reviewers, “In the past, BDSM practices were often marginalised and misunderstood, viewed as deviant or pathological. Representations of BDSM or fetish are very often reduced on celluloid to thriller and horror-genre psychopathic sadists, or the much-maligned stereotypical gimp in the basement. With Pillion, we observe human emotions and reactions where love and BDSM interact, and which many of us in the kink community can relate to.”
The Kink Community Responds to BDSM Depiction in Pillion
