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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Stereo Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 Languages: Mandarin Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 2003 Running Time: 80
 What makes a boy want to sell his body? Cui Zi'en, the doyen of Queer Chinese Cinema, here turns away from relatively high-flown queer theory towards street-level realities. But it's not entirely a theory-free zone: the main protagonist, a nice boy from a happy, middle-class home, has this idea that men, like women, have a duty to fulfill their destiny as mammals by "feeding" others.
Feeding Boys, Ayaya is a response to the recent proliferation of rent-boys in Beijing. As usual in Cui's films there are several strands of storyline. Attention centers on the boy who opts for a life of rent, to the bewilderment of his parents and the exasperation of his hetero elder brother; others who pop up include an ex-rent-boy who has left the field of play and a kid who has difficult questions for an evangelical Christian.
 Early in the film, a rent-boy from Beijing's celebrated Queer Fish Bar spells out the pros and cons of the job. The advantages: money comes in, you have freedom and you fool around as much you like. The disadvantages: your health suffers, you waste a lot of condoms and KY, and you rarely gel a good night's sleep. Funny, provoking and seriously informative.
Cui Zi'en, Director
Cui Zi'en started his career as a novelist before becoming a director. He is also a film critic and a screenwriter as well as an assistant professor of the Theory Study Office at Beijing Film Academy. His works are Kind Enmity Fire (1991), Hurry Up Train (1992), Man and Woman (1999), MASS (2001), Old Testament (2002).
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