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I'm friends with the director of SPEEDWAY JUNKY.
Anyone seen that? Gus Van Sant produced...
Starring Jesse Bradford and JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155197/
Anyone seen that? Gus Van Sant produced...
Starring Jesse Bradford and JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155197/
Cosmic Bus
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oatmeal said:
I've been meaning to see this for years, but something tells me it'll never live up to the JTT-as-gay-hustler fantasy that used to play out in my mind, haha.
Lv99 Slacker
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Sort of looking forward to Girltrash: All Night Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR4zXRdh73I&feature=player_embedded
Looks like good campy fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR4zXRdh73I&feature=player_embedded
Looks like good campy fun.
Soulscribe
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I just wanna watch a good gay romance movie; nothing about coming out, discrimination, self discovery, straight vs gay, nothing tragic or melodramatic. Also something I can watch on Netflix Instant Watch. Which movies are a priority?
I saw this one years ago. Liked it, but hated the ending. I was like "what's with gay movies and tragic endings!! wtf!?!".oatmeal said:
Soulscribe said:
Posted a few on last page, though here are the ones I think fill your criteria; don't know if Netflix has them:
There are a few other nice ones like Dog Tags which I included in that post, but's about self discover mostly. There's also Latter Days which is quite good, but it's basically about coming out and religion. Shelter is excellent, but it's also about coming out and self-discovery.Strapped
Really nice one. Is about a hustler, during one of the usual one-nigh tstands; he's wit ha guy, do their thing, he gets the money and leaves. But after he leaves, he just can't find teh exit of the apartment. Lots of walls, doors, non-working exists, get him into meeting other characters; some are nice, some not so much. It was cool how he basically changed his name and way of acting depending on the guy he was with. A little bit feminine with the group of "old gays", straight-macho with the married guy that "was straight..but likes men" (really creepy scene at one point too) and so on; but as a hustler he gets to have "fun" and get paid; while looking for the exit.
If he changes his ways and if he manages to find the exit, I won't say.
Long Term Relationship
Another nice one. About a guy that's doesn't have actual relationships, just fuck buddies and regular buddies; but seems just tired of just the usual things. One day, while eating out with his friends, one of them starts reading the classifieds section looking for a quick hook up, while reading they find this guy that is looking for an "LTR". They read more of his description, decides to call him and then meet in person. Sparks fly, they have lots in common, friends are jealous about the time they spend together...BUT..there's a problem; sex sucks! There's also a bigger problem!...guy's a republican.
So they have a lot of funny situations while dealing with that and balancing family, friends and temptation.
Is it just me?
This one was better than I expected. even thogh the plot and soem of the characters are the usual "cliche" like good looking, but less confident guy, good looking gym body that strips in a bar and has sex, no friends.
The story is basically about a guy that doens't like hookups but actual dates and relationship and he's disappointed he just can't find them. So he ends doing the whole online dating. On a site, he meets a really nice guy, which have a lot in common, talk over the phone for hours, everything's perfect....till they decide to meet each other. After they agreed to and the other guy sends hi ma picture; he realizes, he was talking using his roomate's (gym guy) account. Afraid that the other guy was talking to him, based on the pictures of his roomate, he agrees with the roomate so he pretends to be him. Of course, things are going to get complicated.
One problem with the movie, is that the other online guy is barely described. We know he's from Texas and that he recently moved there and that's it. We know the main character is in love with him and the conversations they have, but he's literally non existent even when he's on scenes. Also, things get solved really fast in the end. But I still enjoyed it, because the main character reminded of me so much, specially during an early scene when he's at a coffee shop and the employee threats him like shit; just to go and be all lovely towards the next, better looking guy and even offer him the coffee for free. (Yeah, I've been there)
Going to watch Back Soon; so I'll post about it after I do.
MetalAlien
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God damn it people. Hopefully I just missed it but I didn't see anyone mention The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Not only it is THE gay movie it's one of my favorite films of all time.
ZephyrFate
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This is kinda underground and made on an absolutely shoestring budget, but it at least has fairly surprising and decent acting: 200 American. It has the megahottie Matt Walton who's been in soap opera and The Onion Sportsdome on Comedy Central. He's a stud, and he's a gay businessman in the film.
PhoenixDark
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What happened to Love To Love You Baby. One of my fav posters
ZephyrFate
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Also if it hasn't been mentioned, Loose Cannons or Mine Vaganti in Italian. Has two gay brothers who have to take over a pasta company, but one comes out for the other (who has been gay all along) while the one who has always been gay decides to 'play straight' and take over the company. He has a hot boyfriend who visits and complicates things.
Did I mention main gay dude and Italian boyfriend are SUPER mega hot?
It's also pretty good. More about family values than gayness, though.
Did I mention main gay dude and Italian boyfriend are SUPER mega hot?
It's also pretty good. More about family values than gayness, though.
HiroProtagonist
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Well this is a blast from the past. I have two more to add to my excellent collection:
The Matthew Shepard Story (TV 2002)
The Laramie Project
They are painful and gut wrenching, but should be seen. Matthews father gives a speech at the trial that makes me cry every time - It makes me want to cry even thinking about it. If you don't want to watch the movies, here is a brief synopsis and the speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQysLewF4w
The Matthew Shepard Story (TV 2002)
The Laramie Project
They are painful and gut wrenching, but should be seen. Matthews father gives a speech at the trial that makes me cry every time - It makes me want to cry even thinking about it. If you don't want to watch the movies, here is a brief synopsis and the speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQysLewF4w
RadioHeadAche
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I had to do a double-take when I saw a post by GreatnessGone on the first page. Then I realized how old this thread is.
drifter444
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beje said:** ctrl+f's "Fucking Åmål"
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you suck, that movie is awesome
Everyone should watch this movie! Its on netflix under the English name "Show Me Love".
Well, watched Back Soon and Socket.
Back Soon, was kinda cute and most of the cast was from Long Term Relationship; only they were playing straight for the most part. About 2 characters; an actor that's trying to cope with the death of his wife after one year, he decides to sell the house they lived in and an ex-convict trying to change things and leave everything behind to start anew after an accident...nearly a year ago. Because of malpractice, the ex-convict gets some extra money which he uses to buy buy a house. He ends meeting and buying the house of the actor. They met, start a friendship of sorts; they feel mutually attracted to each other but don't know the reason. Both see the ghost of the late wife and as the movie progress, they discover a connection between the appearances and the sudden attraction between both.
There were some slight problems with editing like you can see the "recording sound" through the entire movie, a few scenes that played for a second or two longer and had the actors just standing there, scenes constantly faded to black and the movie was sometimes too funny, compared to the main topic of the movie. Like there were too many jokes at time even more when you get to see one of the actor's movies which was on purpose badly edited, acted etc; but was still nice to watch.
The other movie was Socket...and what a really weird and kinda creepy movie on top that it seems that in purpose the movie was filmed to look "cheap". The story is about a doctor, that after being struck by lightning and surviving he receives an invitation by an intern, to a group that has been through the same. He goes home and feels no will to live, but an obsession to clean and organize everything. Bored with routine he decides to call and go to one of the meetings of the group. There he discovers that they're all survivors of being struck by lightnings and that because of that event they all not only transmit, but can feed from electricity and power outputs; which after doing so they feel better (like a drug).
The doctor starts a relationship with the intern, but also getting obsessed with electricity and wanting more and more and looking for ways to easily connect and get energy. As far as even doing an experiment on which he and the inter put plugs , in their wrists so not only they can connect easily between each other, but also to any plug/output of electricity they see around. Things get even more crazier after that too...
The movie looks and sometimes feel like a really cheap indie-thriller, with a few scenes of full frontal nudity too. There are a few scenes with the doctor's lesbian friends which are quite funny actually, but overall..well, it's fun to watch and a nice diversion. Not something nice, or deep but more like to have a little laugh.
Later I'll see Gone, but not forgotten.
By coincidence, though in part on purpose ..most of the movies I've watched lately one of the main actors is Matthew Montgomery (Long Term Relationship -main guy looking for relationship-, Back Soon -straight, ex-convict-, Socket -the intern-, Gone..); so I guess I'm a fan. XD
Back Soon, was kinda cute and most of the cast was from Long Term Relationship; only they were playing straight for the most part. About 2 characters; an actor that's trying to cope with the death of his wife after one year, he decides to sell the house they lived in and an ex-convict trying to change things and leave everything behind to start anew after an accident...nearly a year ago. Because of malpractice, the ex-convict gets some extra money which he uses to buy buy a house. He ends meeting and buying the house of the actor. They met, start a friendship of sorts; they feel mutually attracted to each other but don't know the reason. Both see the ghost of the late wife and as the movie progress, they discover a connection between the appearances and the sudden attraction between both.
There were some slight problems with editing like you can see the "recording sound" through the entire movie, a few scenes that played for a second or two longer and had the actors just standing there, scenes constantly faded to black and the movie was sometimes too funny, compared to the main topic of the movie. Like there were too many jokes at time even more when you get to see one of the actor's movies which was on purpose badly edited, acted etc; but was still nice to watch.
The other movie was Socket...and what a really weird and kinda creepy movie on top that it seems that in purpose the movie was filmed to look "cheap". The story is about a doctor, that after being struck by lightning and surviving he receives an invitation by an intern, to a group that has been through the same. He goes home and feels no will to live, but an obsession to clean and organize everything. Bored with routine he decides to call and go to one of the meetings of the group. There he discovers that they're all survivors of being struck by lightnings and that because of that event they all not only transmit, but can feed from electricity and power outputs; which after doing so they feel better (like a drug).
The doctor starts a relationship with the intern, but also getting obsessed with electricity and wanting more and more and looking for ways to easily connect and get energy. As far as even doing an experiment on which he and the inter put plugs , in their wrists so not only they can connect easily between each other, but also to any plug/output of electricity they see around. Things get even more crazier after that too...
The movie looks and sometimes feel like a really cheap indie-thriller, with a few scenes of full frontal nudity too. There are a few scenes with the doctor's lesbian friends which are quite funny actually, but overall..well, it's fun to watch and a nice diversion. Not something nice, or deep but more like to have a little laugh.
Later I'll see Gone, but not forgotten.
By coincidence, though in part on purpose
..most of the movies I've watched lately one of the main actors is Matthew Montgomery (Long Term Relationship -main guy looking for relationship-, Back Soon -straight, ex-convict-, Socket -the intern-, Gone..); so I guess I'm a fan. XD
MetalAlien
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What about Black Swan? That counts right?
Femmeworth
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Will check this out.drifter444 said:
Mystic Theurge
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Testosterone
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Escape Goat
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No Priscilla Queen of the Desert?
Souldriver
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Not a big fan of "campy" stuff, but Priscilla is a very enjoyable movie. The opera sequence with Pierce standing on top of the bus made me smile.Teh Hamburglar said:
Femmeworth
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Show Me Love was really good. ;_;
ZephyrFate
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No? Just because it has some lesbian scenes does not actually make it a gay film in any way. Besides, they're not even actually lesbian... they're masturbatory hallucinations.MetalAlien said:
LQX
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I still cant get myself to go out of my way to watch a gay movie involving males but I love movies dealing with lesbianism and not in a perverted way. Fucking Amal which has been posted many times is the one which turned me on to movies dealing with this theme.
Anyway my recommendation is Room In Rome. Pretty good with a haunting song about two women that have a one night fling in Rome after the other comes on to the other who is straight.
Also...
Better Than Chocolate - Its not deep or anything but a good watch about a couple, one still in the closet that tries to hide the relationship even with her family moving in with them. Christina Cox is so beautiful even with that short hair and her body is amazing.
Anyway my recommendation is Room In Rome. Pretty good with a haunting song about two women that have a one night fling in Rome after the other comes on to the other who is straight.
Also...
Better Than Chocolate - Its not deep or anything but a good watch about a couple, one still in the closet that tries to hide the relationship even with her family moving in with them. Christina Cox is so beautiful even with that short hair and her body is amazing.
DesertEater
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A great film. Reminds me a lot of American Beauty. Both have a lot of symbolism. Moreover, It has Colin Firth in itNoRéN said:
And two more from the "Matthew Montgomery collection", hehehe...
*****
Gone, but not forgotten was really nice. Is about a young man that is found by a forest ranger. At the hospital it turns out that the man can't remember anything, not even his name; which was surprising to the doctor since there were no signs of any head trauma or anything. They assume that there may be a psychological reason and a traumatic event made him forget things. The ranger starts befriending the patient and develop a friendship; he admits that he had to punch him when he found him and he thought the punch was part of the reason of the amnesia.
They agree that the patient needs to get out, since staying at the hospital won't be good for his condition. So he stays at the ranger's house. This get more intimate, but they both feel as if there's something wrong. The ranger thinks he might be getting advantage of the situation of the amnesia and that is not fair for both of them; but he always wanted someone waiting for him on his house and to take care of each other. The patient feels bad, because he's afraid that the moment he remembers his past he might remember something really bad that might end their relationship.
There are a few small twists, which i won't spoil. If anything, the only thing I didn't liked was that the ranger was like obsessed with the patient and didn't cared about him getter better, if anything preferred he wouldn't remember anything just so they could both be together. But that was part of the character in any case, just that it contradicted the same character and instead of feeling sorry towards him, one kinda starts disliking the character.
Bonus points for the movie and the scenery. Lush forests, lakes, mountains, rain. really nice.
Role/Play was excellent, which really surprised me. If there's one negative aspect of the movie is that unlike the forests and lakes of "Gone", this one is basically inside a resort in Palm Springs. But that aide, the movie deals with so many recent topics more than just "2 guys in love" aspect.
Story's about 2 characters: an actor that for years passed as straight, starring on the main role of a soap opera, but finds his career coming to a halt when a sex-video of him and another guy is leaked on the internet; and an activist, who's the face and champions for the rights of gay marriage, but finds himself under the of criticism and double standards when reports of his divorce are out and the reason being cheating from his part.
The two can't stand each other at first, the activist accusing him that because of closeted actors like him, gay men in general think that the only way to succeed in life is to hide their true-selves, and the actor accuses him that gay men like him go around parading about how other gay men should live their lives, and wanting to out everyone just to join them in their "cause" instead of just living normal lives.
Though the movie, the relationship gets better and they developer feelings towards each other, but the same line of thinking and ideas is still discussed. Topics about how gay websites/magazines seem to be ore obsessed at who's the next straight guy that will come out of the closet, rather than talk about gay men that are succeeding in their lives and career. How the gay community tends to create this divas like Madonna and Lady Gaga to represent "them", instead of gay men and women. About the obsession with the rights for gay marriage, when the idea of relationships and monogamy usually get the laughs and rejection of this same community.
And other similar exchanges. There are twists and stuff through the movie, with the reason of the divorce of the activist begin the quite more surprising one; but still grounded onto the whole concept of the movies which is about roles and how people not only see you but expect you to be. really surprised by this movie overall, just excellent. (the main actors are a real life couple and recently announced their engagement after 3 years of relationship)
*****
Guess I'm just a big fan of the actor, producer, etc. etc Matthew Montgomery.
He's writing and getting ready to start a movie he wrote called 'Sticke Figures' which the story sounds really interesting; about a gay writer having one of those "blocks" while writing his next book, but when things seems to start getting back to normal he learns that an old girlfriend passed away and left for him a child, his daughter.
*****
Gone, but not forgotten was really nice. Is about a young man that is found by a forest ranger. At the hospital it turns out that the man can't remember anything, not even his name; which was surprising to the doctor since there were no signs of any head trauma or anything. They assume that there may be a psychological reason and a traumatic event made him forget things. The ranger starts befriending the patient and develop a friendship; he admits that he had to punch him when he found him and he thought the punch was part of the reason of the amnesia.
They agree that the patient needs to get out, since staying at the hospital won't be good for his condition. So he stays at the ranger's house. This get more intimate, but they both feel as if there's something wrong. The ranger thinks he might be getting advantage of the situation of the amnesia and that is not fair for both of them; but he always wanted someone waiting for him on his house and to take care of each other. The patient feels bad, because he's afraid that the moment he remembers his past he might remember something really bad that might end their relationship.
There are a few small twists, which i won't spoil. If anything, the only thing I didn't liked was that the ranger was like obsessed with the patient and didn't cared about him getter better, if anything preferred he wouldn't remember anything just so they could both be together. But that was part of the character in any case, just that it contradicted the same character and instead of feeling sorry towards him, one kinda starts disliking the character.
Bonus points for the movie and the scenery. Lush forests, lakes, mountains, rain. really nice.
Role/Play was excellent, which really surprised me. If there's one negative aspect of the movie is that unlike the forests and lakes of "Gone", this one is basically inside a resort in Palm Springs. But that aide, the movie deals with so many recent topics more than just "2 guys in love" aspect.
Story's about 2 characters: an actor that for years passed as straight, starring on the main role of a soap opera, but finds his career coming to a halt when a sex-video of him and another guy is leaked on the internet; and an activist, who's the face and champions for the rights of gay marriage, but finds himself under the of criticism and double standards when reports of his divorce are out and the reason being cheating from his part.
The two can't stand each other at first, the activist accusing him that because of closeted actors like him, gay men in general think that the only way to succeed in life is to hide their true-selves, and the actor accuses him that gay men like him go around parading about how other gay men should live their lives, and wanting to out everyone just to join them in their "cause" instead of just living normal lives.
Though the movie, the relationship gets better and they developer feelings towards each other, but the same line of thinking and ideas is still discussed. Topics about how gay websites/magazines seem to be ore obsessed at who's the next straight guy that will come out of the closet, rather than talk about gay men that are succeeding in their lives and career. How the gay community tends to create this divas like Madonna and Lady Gaga to represent "them", instead of gay men and women. About the obsession with the rights for gay marriage, when the idea of relationships and monogamy usually get the laughs and rejection of this same community.
And other similar exchanges. There are twists and stuff through the movie, with the reason of the divorce of the activist begin the quite more surprising one; but still grounded onto the whole concept of the movies which is about roles and how people not only see you but expect you to be. really surprised by this movie overall, just excellent. (the main actors are a real life couple and recently announced their engagement after 3 years of relationship)
*****
Guess I'm just a big fan of the actor, producer, etc. etc Matthew Montgomery.
He's writing and getting ready to start a movie he wrote called 'Sticke Figures' which the story sounds really interesting; about a gay writer having one of those "blocks" while writing his next book, but when things seems to start getting back to normal he learns that an old girlfriend passed away and left for him a child, his daughter.
VeryGooster
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I love In & Out.
Escape Goat
Member
The problem with a lot of these "gay" movies is that they try to make it gay and then they try to make a good movie. I've come to dread watching any of them for this simple reason. They're just horribly written.
Here is another favorite
Here is another favorite
Femmeworth
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I think I'm going to watch My Summer of Love tonight on Netflix. Show Me Love has reinvigorated my appetite for lesbian drama/romance, though I'm not expecting to find anything more adorable. >_<
I'm not a fan of Matt Dillon, but Kevin Kline has me intrigued.Gooster said:
Horrible
Leather Jacket Love story
watched with a good friend and she wanted to watch it before sending it off to another friend. I couldnt keep up with the money for shit. Seem like it a gaysploitation than a movie it didnt show the difficulty and/or prejudice that people go through or the love that 2 men or women have for each other.
Hope i didnt offend anyone.
Leather Jacket Love story
watched with a good friend and she wanted to watch it before sending it off to another friend. I couldnt keep up with the money for shit. Seem like it a gaysploitation than a movie it didnt show the difficulty and/or prejudice that people go through or the love that 2 men or women have for each other.
Hope i didnt offend anyone.
Probably not the first person to mention it, but Boys Don't Cry was pretty good. Filed under good -- not excellent. Excellent would be, in my opinion, Brokeback Mountain.
It's a bit different since the main character is a girl who wishes to be represented as a man; so I guess lesbian overall in technicality. But I figure trans-GAF would appreciate it as it does an okay job of describing the emotions behind self-identification of gender. I liked it, and I believe it's still on Netflix.
It's a bit different since the main character is a girl who wishes to be represented as a man; so I guess lesbian overall in technicality. But I figure trans-GAF would appreciate it as it does an okay job of describing the emotions behind self-identification of gender. I liked it, and I believe it's still on Netflix.
Femmeworth
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I wouldn't classify it as a lesbian film, since Swank's character is a transman. I started to watch it on Netflix one night but still need to finish it.Spoo said:
ZephyrFate
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Brokeback Mountain would be good if it wasn't so fucking boring. Dunno why people think it's excellent at all.Spoo said:
Femmeworth
Banned
Just finished it. O_O That was so not what I was expecting but still quite good.icarus-daedelus said:
I guess Tamsin was a bona fide sociopath.
Huh, Emily Blunt is married to John Krasinsk. This was my first time seeing her in a movie.
Femmeworth
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Show Me Love is a more straightforward teen romance and tale of self-acceptance. It's Swedish and doesn't have the best production values, but I loved it.icarus-daedelus said:Probably less romantic and a little more psychotic than you were thinking, right?
The soundtrack is so 90s, but in a good way. It's far more lighthearted than My Summer of Love but not overly so.
(Not the actual DVD cover, but I liked this one more
)Pornography: A Thriller
Wow!..this movie not only became one of my favorites this year (even though it's originally from 2 years ago); but the quality and the overall story, darn..this movie could've been easily released across movie theaters worldwide, probably with a different name so people didn't see it as "lol gay porno"; since there's suspense and the overall story will have you guessing, even after it ends. Kinda like Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive.
The movie is around an urban legend of an "ex-porn star" that is trying to live a normal life, studying, having a steady relationship. But he soon finds himself involved in the world of snuff-films and disappears.
Some time later, a writer in NY just moved to a new apartment with his boyfriend. While the boyfriend is looking for a job, he works writing reviews of books and movies for various places and uses the rest of the time to write a book about the gay-pornographic industry, those involved and what happened to the actors that just disappeared. While doing research, he finds the name of the "ex porn star" and decides to investigate what happened. All this, while living under the suspicion that there's something wrong with the new apartment they just moved in.
If there's one "disappointing" aspect of the movie, is that the third act's story is around a curveball/twist they throw at you that, at first fits with the story and kinda makes sense of what you already saw. But then, they add more things to it and it stops making sense and you end with more questions. Though I've yet to see it again, and a few recommend multiple watchings, since after I watched it, I started thinking about it and connecting things.
But the quality of the acting, filming ,editing, script, music..everything's so high, I just couldn't believe that the movie was that great. And the fact that all the characters are gay are not the reason of the story but just part of the characters. This is not about two guys falling in love, or discovering themselves, just guys that have their work, school, lives..and happen to be gay.
Another one of those "looks can be deceiving". Based on the cover and name one might dismiss the movie, but this one's a thriller that will have you guessing through the entire film.
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