Friday, January 27, 2012
"AS LONG AS THER'S LOVE THERE'S HOPE"
Todays gay film was the Thai
Rak haeng Siam / The Love of Siam (2007)
All kinds of love in this but it centers on two young boys who, as best friends then adolescents feel strong homoerotic feelings for one another. Affection and more although they are unable to consummate their love in actual sexual form.
Parents and friends all in the throes of loving situations. They conflict. It is complicated.
Very nicely so and very sweet. Bittersweet at times.
I enjoyed this very much. There is not much cultural baggage to decode to get the story. It is pretty conventional western stuff very nicely acted and presented.
It is long. Maybe too long but I really did not mind the two and a half hours at all.
This is a strong 4 out of Netflix5. Maybe more. It takes some time to digest.
At first one thinks that this is just an other sad gay story but it is not. It is quite real and somehow OK that it ends as it does.
The line in the blog title is repeated throughout the film, one way or another. There is still hope for all of us because there is love.
