Monday, June 11, 2012
GAY GANG
Today's gay film was the Argentine
Plata quemada / Burnt Money (2000)
Great heist film. The wrinkle is that two of the gang members are gay lovers.
Known as "the twins" as many people don't get the relationship, they go on a bank robbery which fails and spend most of the film on the lam with two other guys on the team.
They have the money. But the quiet is brutal and eventually the members of the gang step out. And eventually get caught.
There is a Bonnie and Clyde level shootout and ambush.
The gay angle is played straight so to speak. Nothing much in the story is different at all but the relationship between the two men has ups and downs. One hears voices. It is all upside down from the regular gay guy motif.
The sexiest scenes, if you can stay for them, are at the end. Reconciliation, love and as they have burned their clothing to create heat to offset the tear gas, a beautiful love scene finish the film. Quite satisfying actually. They believe that they will be together after.
The stars are quite handsome and great actors.
It is an upside down genré busting show. Very reminiscent of Almodovar's La Ley del Deseo / The Law of Desire (1987) with Antonio Banderas.
I would gladly see it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
