Saturday, October 01, 2016
Stinker
Today's film is a gay thriller.
But not so much. It is gay but not too thrilling.
Based on a Ruth Rendell novel, well another pen name but still Miss Ruth, there is turmoil and more as a young man falls in love with two people at the same time. The usual adolescent conflict when one of those persons is a man and the other is a woman.
Of course, as someone points out, it is not really love that is involved here but teen age angst and Freudian roiling of the emotions.
And so on.
Move on, nothing to see here.
Of course, I am rooting for the gay side to win out but it is hard to sustain interest in someone as callow as the hero. The guy he falls for is sort of fucked up but at least he knows who he is.
Until the late middle, the story is conventional then it veers into a thriller. One of those where we are torn between our wanting the guy to get away with it and wishing he would get caught.
This is old fashioned manipulation and is sometimes OK but here it is just annoying. I wanted both of the guys punished for being wimps and dicks respectively.
I quit during an ocean storm and will not go back.
Incidentally, there is some nice footage of Anchorage Alaska where I have been and I can attest to the dismal, foggy weather. It is beautiful but impossible to enjoy because it is a constant fight with the elements. It is the only place I have seen board walks on the sidewalks to elevate over the runoff going down underfoot. All the time.
But there I go. After a thriller about two good looking boys I am reminiscing about the atmospherics.
A 1 out of Netflix5 because I could not finish it. Done. Over. Finis.
