Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Family ties
Gay people often have a sort of made up family.
Especially if they are cut adrift from their origins as many of us are.
As a result there are a lot of ties that get rearranged when a lover comes into the picture.
Actually, I suppose it isn't all that different but it seems so. Maybe it is that there is so little social support. Perhaps gay men do not automatically form familial relationships.
Maybe this is all bullshit and no one has any idea about anything.
In any case, today's film focuses on a man who meets someone and changes the balance of all his other relationships.
I may be the only person who owns the DVD and watches it from time to time. Except for Jay Brennan there doesn't seem to be that any careers came out of the film. The leading man is a dead ringer for Ben Baur who ended up playing a gay series, Hunting Season , with some success.
But it is good. And realistic. And bittersweet. The "holding" here is the holding of a lover, the holding of long time friends and the hold of place and situation.
Nicely done, part of our collection, a 3 out of Netflix5.
