Social networks have become the center of many people’s lives, so much so that some live only with them. If we also mix them with sex, the result will be explosive. Movie pornomelancholywho competes in the official section San Sebastian Festivalrefer to it via Lalo Santos, Mexican sex influencer with over 200,000 followers.who plays himself in this mixture of documentary fiction. pornomelancholy It all starts with the fact that Santos finds himself in the middle of a busy street in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. He looks at the countless people passing by until he bursts into tears.

During the day he works as a factory worker, and in his spare time he spends post photos and videos of a sexual nature on your social networks. Some of the photos were taken when he was alone at the factory in overalls “on”. We will also see Lalo having sexual encounters with other men. The funny thing is that we never see him smile. One day, he comes across a social media ad for an audiovisual company looking for gay porn actors. In this way enter the world of porn with a funny movie plays Emiliano Zapata in his intimate encounters with Pancho Villa as they plan to dominate all of America.

During filming, he will meet other actors who post a lot of content on their social networks, which means that their incomes do not stop growing. They even tell him how to jump internationally: “It’s just about saying ‘Oh my God’.” Lalo will start imitating them and become so successful that he leaves his job as a laborer to focus on the world of porn.

Nonetheless, nothing seems to make him happy, lives in a constant state of longing, loneliness. Search through the hundreds of private messages you receive daily for someone who seems to really want to get to know you. His frustration grows when he discovers that those who write to him and adore him only want personal sexual contact or simply praise his qualities.

pornomelancholy This is an interesting reflection on relationships between sex and work and how these people experience their sexuality in their personal lives once they’ve made it their routine. The scenes are very revealing, for example, the conversations that the actors have off-screen while a sex scene is being filmed right next to them.

Director’s film Manuel Abramovich It also touches on the person’s public success on social media and how they can still feel completely alone, as in the case of Lalo.

cross accusations

To contradiction Sparta Now add this from pornomelancholy at the San Sebastian Festival. main actor, Lalo Santos posted on his social networks -certainly- that “I will not attend the screening because I do not agree with the conditions in which the film was shot, there were serious shortcomings in planning, and a lack of ability and sensitivity on the part of the director and production.” The actor’s anger is caused by the fact that “the film recreates the events of a depressed person who engages in pornnamely, important period of my life. The team never had a mental health professional and that was a huge mistake.”

And makes accusations up to the assertion that “I was forced to record when I was emotionally broken and i did porn scene even when I announced my rejection of sex scenes.” However, other porn actors who also participated in pornomelancholy responded to Lalo Santos on Twitter, as was the case with Royal Jacalito: “Of all the abuses you talk about, I saw nothing and I think a few colleagues didn’t see anything either. you were arrogant with us you hardly spoke to us and if the production did anything, it was to give you special attention.” Reggio even accuses him of “why don’t you mention when with a colleague you went too far in the scene and your partner told you that you were hurting him and it was worth it.”

Though it looks like a different story pornomelancholythe truth is that this can happen when you treat a person’s life as a fiction and it is also a person who interprets himself. This Tuesday, Manuel Abramovich is presenting the film in San Sebastian.

Trailer pornomelancholia.