The Pool Boy

I think Gal sees the boy as one relationship not worth messing up. He is a son, a friend, and a breath of fresh air. Pool Boy doesn't know of Gal's past and enjoys his company without that knowledge hanging over his head. When he tells the boy to stay away, its to protect him from two things, one being the rabid dog (Don), and two, he does not want to sour his image in front of the boy.

I could be wrong, but I think turning every man-boy relationship into to one of sexual relevance is to simple and over thought

No, didn't get the that impression til I read this board, and I've seen the movie a few times. I would suggest reading the script to confirm the pederast subtext. I doubt it will be there. Likely story would be that the character is based on a real person who once owned a villa in Spain and hired a pool boy, and rumour spread back home he was abusing the kid.

Why would the freak keep up a sham marriage if he could live anonymously in another country? It makes no sense. He'd have done the Gary Glitter thing and gone to Thailand instead.

Does everyone who is friendly with children that are not their own have to be paedos?

The kid worked for Gal but Gal and the whole gang treated him like a son. To make Gal out to be a paedophile would complicate things in the entirely wrong direction.

There is plenty of homosexual context- Teddy and the Chairman, lots of half naked guys in a pool etc but the kid is simply a kid. And Gal is made out to deeply in love with his wife- why would they add other crap?

When Don sees the kid Gal tells him to get away from here because Don is a very dangerous, very volatile and very crazy person. Would you want your kids around him? "Donny's Day Care"? I don't think Don thought that Gal had a weird relationship with the kid but he was probably thinking something insane.

I saw no hints to suggest this, or that Don suspects this.

The Pool Boy is highly doable, but represents fun and beauty to Gal, not sex. They have a friendly playful relationship that has nothing to do with sex. They like each other and are protective of each other, hence: Gal tells him to stay away, he shows up anyway. First he shows up to check out the scary man he saw on the road, then to watch (apparently spying from the pool) the goings on and ends up starting the main action of the story.

I saw the homosexual undercurrents more in Don. Basically, Don is seriously hung up about sex in general, the orgy disgusts him, the finger "up his bum" and then the hateful ploy using gay sex to extricate himself from the airport security. Not to mention what seems to be his self hatred for "quite liking" Jackie and the possibility that Gal is right to suggest he came all that way just for her.

Teddy Bass gets screwed by the bank chair to insinuate himself and get access to the vault. That is the kind of crowd they are, but Gal has removed himself from all that and is ridiculously content in his love for DeeDee.

This is just mental! WTF??!

Actually, I think the movie gave strong hints that the pool boy is Gal's and DeeDee's son -- or at least DeeDee's son. He is always at their house, and they both appear to care deeply for him. When Don hurts Enrique, this triggers DeeDee's violence; she seems to keep it under control throughout barrages of abuse from Don, but when he raises his hand to Enrique, she goes off the rails. Looks like a pissed-off mother to me.

I don't think there was a sexual relationship there, but the Pool Boy is a romantic figure to Gal - he is part of an un corrupted, natural landscape far away from the city of vice and grime.

Anybody get the impression that Gal was doing the pool boy on the side?