Sunday, June 24, 2012
MIXED BAG
Today's gay film was a series of shorts collected as Boys Life Six. There are no reviews.
Four films, one horror (quite effective), another just a small character piece. A doorman gets obsessed with a tenant in the building he works for. In another, a couple of young guys dance a slow seduction with each other. In the last, a film that I have seen before,a young man goes home to the family farm after being in the big city, finding romance and real partnership, maybe love, right where he started.
Shorts are fun because nothing requires a huge investment of time or even energy. You can always bail.
There is a tendency for critics to review the disc instead of the stories. As a watcher, I try to keep them from being "better than" one another and just take them as they come.
As far as I know there is absolutely no attempt on the part of the producers to make these films thematic or in any way related.
I suppose one would not find four horror films together in the Boys Life series but other than that, they are just there.
I liked all of them. I had seen the fourth, Heartland on the internet and watched it twice again. It is shown below.
The others were quite enjoyable.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
