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Today's movie shows the underside of gay life in lower class England.

Sort of.

Along the way it might forget that it is a film of gay romance but, in the end, it regains its footing and, while supremely sad, does allow love between two young men to shine through.

Cal (2013)

tells what happens when young gays meet one another just on the brink of gang life and the social grinder.

This is a sequel. My policy is to avoid them and this shows why. The character's weight was pretty well expended in the first film and, this time around, has to have a complicated plot to keep things going: dying mums, social unrest, sexual predators.

Which is OK as far as it goes. But it doesn't earn the film as high marks as it might have if there were more focus on the young men and less on social unrest. The newsreelish bits between the story are distracting and a bit repellant.

I will be giving this a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films, gay films