Tuesday, February 19, 2013
PIFFLE
Today's movie was
I take it as my solemn duty to see as many gay themed films as are available to be seen.
There are a few exceptions when I read enough to know that a film is over the sadistic top, so to speak, or focuses much on homophobic behavior. We see so much in real life.
But, usually, I go with the flow and try them out.
Today's film is homosexual only insofar as the hero, an older guy who has been asexual all his life, an entrepreneur, has sold his company and has a lot of time on his hands. Well, that isn't it.
His sister, a conniving bitch, tries to marry him off to an attractive but similarly neuter-ish woman as a companion of convenience. At the same time she gives him a dog. A puppy. Not that he wants one but it is easier than going for the neutered woman.
No. That isn't what makes it homosexual.
How a man can get to the age of fifty and still not have any idea of his sexual orientation has to define the meaning of the word workaholic.
But there he is. With a puppy who needs walking. And there, on a park bench is a man in his thirties with his dog. As it happens the younger man is gay and quite aware of it.
Ah. Here comes the gay part.
They become friends, they begin to have feelings for one another and, after a brush with homosexual panic on the part of the older man and some overly demanding out-behavior expectations of the younger gay, they conclude that they indeed do love one another "that way" and, "more or less" live happily ever after.
The story is cute, improbable and, given the subject material, rather sexless.
Well there is one scene apré sex when the older guy leaves early rather than spend the night. In confusion.
I watched this all the way through. It is amazingly HD clear in its photography which really is not bad at all. There are glitches in the continuity and some loose ends which would bother me more if I cared more about the people.
I am going to give this a 2 out of Netflix5. I saw it through without FF but grudgingly.
Incidentally, at the end, the older guy is still not very bonded to the puppy. But we do see him and the younger guy being playful and having a good time together walking along the river.
Oh. There is a brown maid of indeterminate but probably Jamaican extraction and she all but shuffles and jives across the screen. Wow. In a gay film they have a stereotypical brown person. With blond hair. Also, on very flamboyant queen who comes along to make a point that being gay can be kinda scary if you are a repressed, unflamboyant old queen.
Filmed in Philadelphia in a neighborhood I know well. Rittenhouse Square. The HD makes it pop. Too bad about the story and the general production values.
