Thursday, May 03, 2012
TOUGH LOVE
Today's gay film is the British
I suppose that any film named "Shank" is going to have some violence in it. This film has FF violence. The kind one does not want to watch as long as it is shown.
That said, the love relationship shown is great and redeems the tough path the young couple involved have to follow to get there.
This is another fag basher who is gay falling in love with the victim. Usually there is an unbelievability about this kind of thing but they bring it off here. The tough boy gets the gang to relent on bashing the sissy boy who turns out to be a serious power bottom when the two get together. He helps the thug rethink his life and more importantly realize his sexual orientation and accept it.
The gang is relentless in their revenge for this betrayal. I thought it quite believable. Sociopaths all. And as it turns out our hero is not the only closet case in the gang who exacts his own revenge in a very graphic scene of rape and pillage.
But all ends well. And believably. There is a third party to all this who is a kind of guardian angel. We find out why in the end as the boys go off on life's journey.
The gay love scenes are great. They show it all. A good reparation for the ugliness of the gang stuff.
I did FF around the violence. So it would be a 2 for that but I will upgrade it for the great love scenes and the relationship that follows.
Maybe a 4.
Look, this is "just" an expertly made gay interest film but it will mean a lot to someone if they can get an audience in this country for the film.
