“A teenage boy discovers he can use his face massager… not for his face.”
That sure sounds LOADED if you ask us.
‘Dildo’ is a Filipino short film written and directed by Jake Muñoz Consing. It was created for a directing class which Consing describes is about “A supportive mother who just wants the best for her son.”
How supportive you may ask? Read on.
The film follows a curious teenage boy who discovers the other purposes of a massager than just soothing one’s muscles. It starts with the boy naked on his bed, aggressively using his twin-ball facial massager on his face and his thighs as he moans and groans in relief.
As he rolls it over his thighs to release some muscle knots, an idea starts to form in his head like a shapeless cloud looming over him. It was bound to happen. He is young, inquisitive, and hormonal like most people his age. The massager was also phallic.
So, the boy excitedly removes his underwear, lubes up the handle with his spit (kids, please use lube, we are begging), and starts pleasuring himself anally. Just when he is about to reach his peak, the lights go on and his mother (Ellena Melchor) walks in on him. She asks him just what in the fresh hell was he doing with a massager when it’s not even a dick! She berates him, asks him to wait, and walks out of the room, only to come back with a crystal glass dildo which she hands over like a piece of sacred relic. He looks at it with reverence until his mother tells him to wash it first before using it. Hilarious!
Writer’s Thoughts:
At just over a minute long, this Filipino short film managed to accomplish so much, having been screened at different festivals such as the 2023 Roze Filmdagen LGBTQ+ Festival and the 2022 TLVFest – The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival. It was also one of the winners of a competition at the 2022 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, one of the biggest LGBTQIA+ film festivals in the US.
