title: Stupid Boy (film)
text: # Stupid Boy (film)
  
  Stupid Boy (French: Garçon stupide) is a 2004 film directed by Lionel Baier.
  
  ## Plot
  
  This French language film tells the story of 20-year-old Loic, who works by day in a chocolate factory, and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body.
  
  Loic's journey to self-awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Pierre Chatagny as Loïc
  * Natacha Koutchoumov as Marie
  * Rui Pedro Alves as Rui
  * Lionel Baier as Lionel
  