Friday, July 06, 2012
LONG AND SHORT OF IT
Today's gay film was a collection of shorts
None of these is easy or comfortable.
The first is a bit of adolescent testing in a swimming pool and is, actually, very nice.
The second is a Southern Gothic piece on the style of Deliverance. Not bad but a bit disturbing here and there.
Another has a cousin visit with another older boy who has many answers for the younger one. None of this is homoerotic in a literal sense and yet all of it is in that the experiences together helped form the adult gay man. See? Loving straight kids can do a lot of good.
The fourth is longish and is based on the experiences of two closeted men in the Israeli Army. Nothing happens and everything does.
These are not the best shorts that I have seen but all of them have a unique quality all their own and no, they are not all positive goody two shoes homo films. Some bad things happen here and there. Like life.
I had seen two out of the four in the past. I wouldn't want to see it again. So a 3 out of Netflix5.
