Friday, April 13, 2012
OR TREAT?
Today's gay favorite film #11 was
TRICK (1999)Two young men notice each other in a go-go gay bar. One is the go-go boy of the hour.
By chance, they are both on the same train going home. We are in NYC where everyone sees everyone else every day on the train.
I don't mean to be dismissive about this. The film is a small town romance that could not happen in a small town.
The boys agree to trick with one another. A one night stand.
Problem, they have nowhere to go and undergo a series of sometimes terminally irritating delays and side trips. The necessary tension.
One remarks toward the end that they have already done the hard part of courtship. Former lovers, catty drag queens, really really irritating best friends (Tori Fucking Spelling)
But somehow they, and we, get through it all and each young man is transformed.
Both are shy and have found behaviors to overcome it. Failed tactics. The go go boy is hard and apparently promiscuous, the aspiring writer is self deprecating and almost masochistic in his failure to assert.
By the end of their trial by fire, they traverse the spectrum of meeting up. The quiet one takes an intiiative and the ballsy one quiets down and gets sweet and soft.
It is great to see and was, for me, reward for staying with the difficulties. I was with them all the way.
It is a favorite, I think, because it shows young men not doing the hit and run thing and more importantly, using their attraction for one another as a catalyst for changing their usual behavior.
At least a 4 out of Netflix5. I had seen it before and it was still fresh. And sexy.
