Thursday, February 21, 2013
LOVE OR SEX?
Today's film was Terracino's
This is a gay film with a difference. But, the situation it explores is not at all unusual in the gay community.
That is, there are plenty of guys ready to have sex. In fact, the shy homosexual seems to be a thing of the past. What is missing is love. Guys can screw often, well and with considerable creativity but when it comes to "love", the word, the act, the possibility of it, there is a kind of brownout.
Elliot is looking for love. He is a young gay man and has the wherewithal for "encounters" but nothing lasts. He doesn't last. The others don't last.
Fear of intimacy clutches the best. Looks don't count.
Terracino handles this in really creative ways. We find young teen Elliot and grown up Elliot. Elliot with his single mom and Elliot with other single guys. Elliot with his mom's inadequate or bashing boyfriends, Elliot the same.
There is more comedy at first. Then things shadow up a bit.
I was caught off guard by the seriousness of this film's purpose. Like Elliot, I want to find him a man. Overlooking the fact that Elliot never learned how to be a man, be with a man or know how to love.
It is funny. And light. There are cartoons! Very well done.
Will Elliot find someone? Will he be able to be himself and let the guy be with him? Will he ever resolve his mom stuff that gets in his way as a grown up?
Well, the title isElliot Loves so, after all, there might be light at the end of the, hope.
This is almost g-rated except for the theme and language. A nice film. You could show it to your mother. Well, yours not mine.
I enjoyed it and I was fully satisfied by its arc and conclusion.
It is fun to watch the kid Elliot disappear from the grown up Elliot as he learns how not to develop a relationship through hard experience.
I wonder if the boy and the man actors met or worked their shit out or what. It is a perfect meld. I guess that is the director's job. You never doubt for a second that Elliot is Elliot.
One other thing. This film is filled with "ethnic" actors. A lot of brown people. What a relief from the white bread standards we are used to.
This film is a Kickstarter funded film. Kickstarter is a crowd funded financial resource for many kinds of projects. Films especially. I am a Kickstarter member on another film being produced right now by Marco Berger, the creator of Plan B. It is fun to do. They keep us informed and all. There are perks. I am less interested in those than helping get a project started.
This film is a good example of what can be done. It may or may not have commercial appeal but the creators have to be proud of it.
I already bought the disc so it is a 5 out of Netflix5 by definition. I will watch it again. Not all the DVD's I get will get a lot or replays. I think this one has the legs.
