GAY SOAP

Today's movie was

Shelter (2007)

which is one of many gay films that are made each year for a select but faithful audience.

Straight people don't see much of them which is too bad.

Most of them are B or 'straight to DVD' pictures but, every once in a while, one transcends the genré and has appeal to a general audience.

This is one of those.

It is based on surfing. A novel approach and a very good one as it turns out. The photography is stunning.

It takes us out of the bedroom and into a kind of natural life—a lot of air and, of course, water. The people live and breath in a more vital way somehow.

There is a coming out, a working through a family problem, a coming of age process about one's chosen work and an alcoholic family.

A lot of threads to be working into a fabric but it all works very well.

I liked it a lot and I would like to see it again sometime.

That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Incidentally, the guys are very appealing and non-threatening. And don't worry, the sex is all very G-rated if these were hets.

As it is, they get an R for being queer.

Doesn't it frost your ass that two men can't get the same rating as a straight couple?

No?

Think how we feel.