Warhol's filming of a man experiencing fellatio plays cleverly with denial and desire in the cinema: we see only the man's face. J. Hoberman writes in the Village Voice: "Restraint is the movie's subject; few films have ever been so rigorous in their logic...As Stephen Koch observed, this 35-minute closeup must be the apotheosis of the 'reaction shot.' It's also a work of genius...The movie is a kind of silent aria."