Friday, September 12, 2014
Ohio
Today's gay DVD film is about the last night before a gay man leaves San Francisco for his childhood home in Ohio.
In this delightfully sad tale, just about every San Francisco gay stereotype is ticked off the checklist drenched in the fog, the easy sex and the lack of any form of commitment. Jobs, friends, lovers.
There is a lot of sex. All of it rendered in a naturalistic way. Unvarnished surroundings. The Castro style.
The film is totally consistent with my experience of the place. It is not hypocritical. Or overly supportive. It is easy to see how things are done and not done here. It is a bit of an anthology movie with sexual situations as the chapters.
Good sex. Not bad. Erotic. Not porno-esque. A lot of moles and zits and not everyone has a big dick.
No perfect bodies and mostly nice people.
Somehow Travis Matthews has managed to go 111 minutes without any misstep. It is very well done. One can easily put himself (no women) into the picture. Having been to the city myself, as a tourist, I can find a few of the people I met and spent time with.
In a way there is nothing special about San Francisco and, in another, it is totally unique. The film loses no opportunity to set the stage. Great photography.
It is an easy 5 out of Netflix5.
