So this is not so much of a feature length movie as it is a collection of three shorts that may or may not in the very end, sort of come together as one narrative. Still not sure. The first short was my favorite. There is nothing more exhilarating that experiencing a story of discovery and openness to vulnerability in love and sex with age-appropriate peers. So I liked it very much.
The second short turned out to be a thriller-horror type film and would have been interesting if the director had 80 minutes to flesh things out. But it ended up just being weird after the first short. There really is only so much one can do with allotted time and having to use a two minute flashback to explain the entire short, is well, unfortunate.
The third short would have been nice if it ended differently. I understand the martyr theme and they did it well. But what was weird at the end when the martyr ends up in the negative father complex twilight zone. Even if its not literal daddy incest, it certainly is symbolic and well its just weird. Especially after the psychologically pleasing first short. Maybe the director just needed another 10 minutes?
It's worth watching for the first feel good one and there are a lot of pretty young men so at least on the second two you aren't bored with ugly and bad actors.
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ReplyDeleteQuoting from above, "...the martyr ends up in the negative father complex twilight zone." This is incorrect. The part in the movie where Ohm calls the bedridden man "Daddy" doesn't mean "his father". Gay couples will sometimes say this to each other like, "Daddy, did you feed the cat?" It is a term of affection between gay partners. So what this means is, this is the same couple that appeared in the first segment of the movie, although it is now many years later, after they had bought the house on the river from the transgender woman who said she would sell as soon as she got a boyfriend. That Ohm and the bedridden man are a couple is backed up by N'Boy, the young and tasty college student who broke up with his girlfriend after he realized for certain he was gay. As they were saying goodbye, N'Boy told Ohm, "I am so happy for you that you have met a good guy.", referring to Beam. In a flashback, N'Boy had seen Ohm taking care of Beam. The flashbacks near the end are key to understanding what happened. The only part left to the imagination of the audience is just what is actually wrong with Beam, Ohm's boyfriend. Whether Beam could be down permanently or temporarily and from injury or disease we just don't know. When I watched, I got the impression that he was paralyzed from the neck down.
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