Monday, February 15, 2016
Awkward silences
In a wordy world, there seems to be no place for the quiet person, the one who keeps his or her own counsel.
When two people like this find a relationship then there is a kind of double silence which actually can translate to a kind of soulful searching for the other who will complete them.
This has to be done non-verbally.
That is kind of the premise for this wonderfully sweet film about two young men who cannot say what is in their hearts but are able to find a place where they belong.
There is a lot of sensuality here, no buzzkill with yak.
The young actors are remarkable. For a kind of twist, the one is deadly handsome and the other not so much. This often happens, actually. Couples where one is a looker and the other is not. I will not go further with this but we see this with gay men all the time.
Well, I will go further. I think that the burden of being handsome is often too difficult to bear and that there is a great peace in going beyond that. Finding another who is not a competitor or conventional is a great compensation. And, in one another, each finds a kind of peace beyond the norm. A way to escape all that.
Such a lovely film.
I will want to see it again and again. That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.
