Wilhelm’s sexual woes (example: “Young Royals”)

I’m still working on the next long post, but I didn’t want you to come to this space and be disappointed this weekend, so here’s a teensy, tiny in-between kinda thing. Just a thought worth pondering, really. And something about a hopefully interesting screenwriting technique.

You do all remember that time Wilhelm came over to Simon’s, i.e. that second sexual encounter in Bjärstad, don’t you? And we discussed at length how clear the subtext is here, how much we can find out about what went on between the two boys…or rather what didn’t. We found out that Wilhelm had trouble performing in bed (because…nerves and anxiety and feeling under pressure to produce an heir). To put it more bluntly, we talked about how Wilhelm couldn’t get it up, how Simon reacted and how that whole sexual encounter ended. Because the subtext is pretty easy to read once you know where to look.

Well, here’s another fascinating fact about that scene that I think is really worth pondering.

Something we haven’t discussed so far is the way in which screenwriters sometimes combine different mirror scenes into one, i.e. how they stitch together two mirror scenes and why.

So, let’s do just that…

(Disclaimer: I hope you’re an adult; this post is going to be about sex. If you don’t want to read anything like this, maybe skip this one. And yes, obviously it’s going to be about Simon’s tragic backstory, too.)