Monday, February 20, 2012
BUDDY MOVIE
Today's "gay movie" was more about friendship and the difficulties of being a square straight boy.
For a change, the city wise and rather sophisticated gay man is the teacher and mentor.
Even when the straight boy gets himself in some trouble, the gay man is the one that gets them bailed out.
There is probably not an original piece in the script or the film or the boy/men but that is OK. They way it is put together helps the film get over its clichés and having a gay/straight relationship with a gay hero is a good way to package.
The young men are great together. The rest sort of fades but that is the point, I think.
It is not a great film but it pushes the normality of gays and straights sharing so much more of friendship and support for each other than we normally see.
Funny, yesterday had the same idea (Scott Pilgrim).
Aside from the friendship there is a sub-plot that has the quiet square man involved with a couple of guys who are in the drug trade. He barely misses getting caught in that net and some of the stuff that happens is very exciting and, actually, scary and upsetting. A good counterbalance for the sweet stuff that predominates.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
