Monday, February 11, 2013
FAME
Spoiler alert!
Today's film was a gay version of the old chestnut. Like the prince who hides among the commoners, a movie star meets a gay man who helps him home from a drunken bout of gutter diving.
The good samaritan doesn't watch American films so he has no idea of who his guest is.
The rest of the film has an element of hide and seek and whether they will bridge the chasm between them once the cat is out of the bag. So to speak. In this case, a 20 something hunk who is truly star material.
What makes it gay is that the guest makes the opening moves with a "good morning" blow job.
I suppose that this doesn't sound like the kind of film everyone would enjoy and that is exactly true.
You need a certain background of deprivation that comes from years of watching straight fairy tales and wishing you could have the prince instead of the girl in the picture.
Or at least someone like you could have the prince.
At last. Fantasy realized.
Well, not entirely as it is not me that is getting the nice wake up call.
It takes a while for them to resolve all the confusion and difficulty but once they do there is a nice soft landing.
There is a "best friend" in this, a female, who sort of fucks this up. She is what is known, or used to be known pre-PC, as a fag hag. Now they are "just friends". No relationship in sight for her so grab onto the gay man who is no threat.
We get to see a lot of Paris. Very nice. The boy is found lying in the gutter on a street which leads to the Moulin Rouge which is seen just out of frame. Nice touch.
We see a lot of the men too. Both are quite attractive and they have fun together and so do we. Nicely handled.
All said and done, I really liked this film. The other gay man in the house liked it too.
You can't get this at Netflix. It is probably too new to make it onto their rather abundant gay list. But if it were, I would give it a 4 out of 5 meaning I would be happy to see it again.
Given that I went out and bought it for our collection it is almost assured that I will.
Oh. The title!
Rue des Mauvais Garçon / Bad Boy Street (2012).
The title has nothing to do with the film but I can see that the film maker saw the street and was inspired to build a movie around it. Come to think of it the movie star is the kind of bad boy that you would want to stick around with.
They do pass the street sign as they wander around Paris.
