Pink Narcissus

An extremely handsome, brooding, self - absorbed young man escapes the realities of his real world through a progression of exotic fantasies. Obsessed with his own perfection, he lives in a dreamworld of intense colors, magnificent music, elaborate costumes and strikingly handsome men. In a series of Walter Mitty - like sequences he imag ines himself as a Roman slave chosen by the emperor, a triumphant matador vanquishing the bull (who is really a black leather clad cyclist), an innocent wood nymph gamboling in the woods, and a diaphanously dressed harem boy in the tent of the sheik. The r oom where he does his daydreaming is an exquisite jewel - encrusted retreat. But reality constantly intrudes through the visits of his "johns" and the harsh and ugly sounds of the streets and the depraved lives of those who inhabit them. His narcissistic enc hantment with his own beauty and lifestyle is marred by one great fear – aging and the loss of his youth and good looks. Finally, a terrible glimpse of reality, the jaded "john" becomes himself.