Protect Me From What I Want

Protect Me From What I Want

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Release Date

4/3/2009

Runtime

14 mins

Overview

Saleem is an Indian student living in Leeds with his parents. He meets Daz at a gay cruising spot, and they have a night of mutually enjoyable sex. Saleem is nonetheless ashamed of himself and what he has done the next day.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000

Revenue

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A short, intimate portrait of conflicted desire and the gap between a moment of liberation and the weight of internalized shame that follows. The film holds its gaze steady on the interior life of a young man caught between his own desires and the world's expectations.

Mood

BittersweetMelancholicTense

Themes

IdentityComing of ageFreedom

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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