From watching the trailer for Pillion , the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, you would think it’s just a quaint, charming, and sexy rom-com following the relationship between a timid loner and a biker adonis. And while it begins that way, following a fairly light tone that you often don’t see paired with stories of BDSM, queer relationships between men, and biker gangs, Pillion is something much more complex . Following the shy, lonesome Colin ( Harry Melling ), a man in his early 30s who still lives at home with his parents, and the god-like biker Ray ( Alexander Skarsgård ), it’s less a rom-com and more an introspective coming-of-age story.

While we watch Colin revolve his existence around Ray, Lighton, with a keen eye for intimacy, draws out all the conflicting e

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