''Deep'' ( nl, Diep) is a 2005 Dutch

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about the 14-year-old girl Heleen (played by 15-year-old

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). Many scenes are in extreme

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Plot

Heleen practises

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ing first on her arm, then on another girl who is her friend, then does it with boys. On holiday in France she likes a French boy Bernard (

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). However, when she tells him she loves him, she is uncomfortable with the bold way he starts touching her. Axel (

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) is a childhood friend who is in love with her. However, Heleen is more interested in Axel's English friend Steve (

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). Heleen is torn between her mother's statement that sex is like eating a sandwich, and Steve's that "sex should be like a voyage to the sublime, without true love no sublime". Steve rejects sex with Heleen. Encouraged by Steve and Axel, Heleen smokes some

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, but she does not really like it. Also her mother Quinta (

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) encourages her to do it. She also encourages Heleen to give Axel a kiss; after all, they had a fake marriage as young children. Provocatively Heleen gives Axel an elaborate tongue kiss in Quinta's presence. Quinta asks Heleen not to walk around the house in only underpants: it makes her new lover uncomfortable. Indignantly Heleen shows her little brother her bare breasts and asks whether he is shocked. However, he does not care, he is indifferent to them. Axel threatens to commit suicide if Heleen refuses to have sex with him. She masturbates him (not fully shown). With the consent of her mother and after getting

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drugs, Heleen has intercourse with Axel. She thinks it is okay, not very great, but anyway she is glad to have done it.

External links

* *https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/deep-1200513913/https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/deep-1200513913 2005 films 2005 drama films Dutch drama films 2000s Dutch-language films {{Netherlands-film-stub