Friday, March 16, 2012
HALF AND HALF
Today's gay film was
Do Começo ao Fim / From Beginning to End (2009)
This beautiful film has been around all the sites on the internet, short outtakes. I wanted to see it and it has never made it to Netflix, so I bought it.
As it happens, it is a DVD that I would want to own. So it worked out.
Two half brothers grow up together and are very close. So close that it worries their families a bit. They go back and forth from one dad to the other but live with their mother.
Their bond is enduring. Partly because of the loving support of their parents. Support for loving one another.
As they mature and one dad and their mom pass on, they find themselves alone and as it turns out their love has been sexualized.
That sounds so medical.
The word is "incest". But it doesn't come off that way at all.
To me.
Some viewers got all jumpy about it though.
The film is beautiful to watch. The kids are charming. The adults even more so.
The ocean, the countryside. All lovely.
The sexuality is love soaked.
I am definitely going to see it again and that makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.
