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There is a film genre that rests on relationships between a gay and straight man.

These vary as to outcome. Sometimes, the straight guy comes out to himself and ends at least bi-sexual. Sometimes a complete conversion. Other times the situation is more oriented toward love between two men that ends up in a non-sexual expression of some kind. This is the type of outcome of today's film.

Yong jiu ju liu / Permanent Residence (2009)

by the director known as Scud (Wan Cheung Lau).

I have seen this several times. All of the film is lyrically produced near the ocean, in luxurious apartments, Hong Kong. A romance between a gay and a non-gay man. There is love but its expression cannot be the same.

This is not only a major theme of gay films, it is a major theme of most gay men's lives.

We all get crushes on straight men. Sometimes more than a crush. Unrequited love.

You would think the straight guy would relax and have a go at it but that is seldom the case.

This is a wonderful film about such an "impossible" love. But the fact is that each man feels the power of their love and the lack of a sexual dimension is overcome as a barrier to a real union between them.

It is a definite 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films, gay films