Sunday, August 23, 2015
Eye candy
Sometimes a gay film is just a gay film.
Meaning that it is made for the exclusive entertainment of gay men and, in that sense, is a superior production since it does not have to slice and dice. It can come out full frontal.
I do not mean with the nudity. Just that unless you are gay and have that insight the film doesn't work very well.
Going Down in La La Land (2012)
is like that.
Inside jokes, lingering shots on good looking bodies, a story line which while improbable fits most gay male fantasies of how it would work to go to Hollywood looking for a job in movies.
Fun, frolicking and only a little camp, it is worth seeing again. I was afraid it might not be. Frothy and thin much of the time it always seems to pick up steam again and finishes very nicely.
A 5 out of Netflix5 because I own it but it would be a 3 in another more critical world. Maybe a 2. But let's not go there.
Let's just watch the young, hung and handsome midwestern boy make a go of being a star. So what if he only gets as far as shooting a solo porn film ("everyone starts that way, honey"). He ends up in a good place. I won't tell you what that is but it is not a career on the screen.
A good solid situation comedy.
