PRIDE & PREJUDICE AND Fire Island
New York magazine|June 06 - 19, 2022
JOEL KIM BOOSTER’s debut film is a deliciously bawdy, possibly triggering gay rom-com. He’s ready to go into a cryogenic sleep to avoid the discourse.
E. Alex Jung
PRIDE & PREJUDICE AND Fire Island

Joel Kim Booster is looking at his penis. It’s 2018, and he is tripping balls from the LSD Oreos he took with his housemates on their last full day on Fire Island. Earlier, they had gone to the beach, where the sand oozed between their toes and time lost its militant edge. They took a walk back home that lasted for what felt like an eternity (ten minutes), during which they listened to Lorde and sophie and split open the most delicious pineapple in the world. For dinner, they made junk carbonara from pantry leftovers. At some point, Booster peeled off and went to the bathroom. He stripped, got hard, and now is staring at his reflection. His body, his dick. He has measured it upwards of 10,000 times and knows it is an objectively good dick, a gorgeous dick. Still, there is always a difference between knowing something and feeling it. At this moment, high as Mount Olympus, he can look down at his naked body with his third eye open and agree: He is fucking hot.

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