Saturday, August 29, 2015
Coming of (yawn) age
Every moviemaker has to make his coming of age film.
Young gay film makers have that special twist of coming of out age.
Today's film joins a long list of books, films, even records in telling one such story.
Gay people never get tired of hearing other gay people's stories. It is one of the more charming aspects of our "culture".
Growing up in a straight world, we need the experience repeated enough times with gay and straight friends that we can become more adult. Or just adult.
Today's film is a nice little family sitcom.
gets to do it again.
The homophobic father, the clueless mother, the jock brother who does love his gay sib and so on.
Here is another run of it; a nice story without any bad mishaps. No one is hurt and, too bad, no one apparently really has sex. If they do, we never see it and don't even get to hear about it. "Gay" is a sort of vague identity issue to be talked about. Our hero does go to NY where he does have a boy friend of sorts. But even that is flat.
This one gets a 3 out of Netflix5 even though I bought it. I am not sure that I have seen it more than once and I will probably not bother seeing it again. Not a bad thing. Just not very much to see here, keep moving.
