Tuesday 8 December 2009

Hard-core



Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (2009) [* * * * *]

One of the few explicit movies I've actually enjoyed. I could class it as gay porn, except that it engaged the mind and had a much better storyline with romance and so many interesting observations about the gay community. How much like heterosexuals they are in their relationships. I enjoyed every minute of it. You could see a woman directed it from the attention to the How of relating, from the larger world to ourselves.:)

9 Songs (2004) [* * * * *]
This would be the Why of relating, how to isolate yourself from the world. The other explicit one was a reflective, nostalgic view of a short-term relationship. It is explicit in the sense of love being in the love-making - the pair are alienated mentally or emotionally in the midst of a torrid affair.

It is only after it's over that the man knows what he had was as close to love as he'll ever get. Probably very descriptive of a male who hops through short-term relationships to avoid closeness. Interesting perspective, even if too mechanical and animalistic for my taste.

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