-THE STORY---
#1. Tres Cute-Boy grows up in quaint seaside town.
#2. Cute-Boy, realizing which way his 'tide runs', falls for Cute-Chum.
#3. Cute-Chum, unwilling to admit feelings (bi?......nah, prolly not), constantly lolls all over Cute-Boy + utters "meaningful" things to him.
#4. Cute-Boy becomes more + more confused after Cute-Chum brings self to romantically kiss Cute-Boy.....then begins to suffer a case of 'comes-in-handy amnesia'.
#5. Cute-Boy, very unhappy + not 'getting any', heads for Big-City to try luck.
#6. Cute-Boy in Big-City (the one with tall, metal tower) hooks up with estranged, but-now-all-accepting Pere (uh, I mean Dad) + begins search for "love and a lasting relationship."
#7. Cute-Boy has much trouble finding something "meaningful".......but when at last he does + 'tide is running' smoothly, who should show up but.............Cute-Chum.
#8. After "catch up" time on park bench, Cute-Boy must head off for appointment.......but Cute-Chum wants to tag along.
#9. FIN (uh, I mean The End......really!)
-BEHIND THE STORY---
#1. Too Cute-Director/Writer (behaviorally, not physically) creates an, in-the-end, confusing series of flashbacks (presumably to give us a sense of more than the bare plot that's actually there).
#2. Photographically, Too Cute-D/W gives us confusing melange (uh, I mean mix) of a color palette (washed out in home town scenes / brightly colorful in Big-City ones). Actually, he probably meant to do that.......but which way DO we adjust our monitor's color scale?
#3. Too Cute-D/W's scene lighting for sex scenes is catastrophic, particularly to gay viewers (who else would there be?). One can tell (from soundtrack) there's lots of action going on, but it's so frustratingly dark that any enjoyment is lost (turning up bright-level only leads to a "washed out" picture). You can bet if this were "hetero-sex" the scenes would be as brightly lit as the Sahara Desert at noon.
#4. Too Cute-D/W's sense of what makes a fulfilling story and, especially, how to end it seems to this viewer (to again use the word) 'frustratingly' out-of-kilter. I've already told you about the final scene; what you've still not been told is the movie's running time. This film (uh, I mean "work of art"?) times out at just about a very brief 55 minutes. To make matters look even worse, the DVD Extras---with a "Making Of Featurette" wherein Too Cute-D/W and others explain this production to us---clocks in at a hefty 32(!) minutes. When a film explanation takes nearly two-thirds the length of the feature, we viewers out here have to wonder......don't we?
PS--Points given for a coupl'a or three 'hotties' and for hot sex (but only for the hearing-empowered).
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#1. Tres Cute-Boy grows up in quaint seaside town.
#2. Cute-Boy, realizing which way his 'tide runs', falls for Cute-Chum.
#3. Cute-Chum, unwilling to admit feelings (bi?......nah, prolly not), constantly lolls all over Cute-Boy + utters "meaningful" things to him.
#4. Cute-Boy becomes more + more confused after Cute-Chum brings self to romantically kiss Cute-Boy.....then begins to suffer a case of 'comes-in-handy amnesia'.
#5. Cute-Boy, very unhappy + not 'getting any', heads for Big-City to try luck.
#6. Cute-Boy in Big-City (the one with tall, metal tower) hooks up with estranged, but-now-all-accepting Pere (uh, I mean Dad) + begins search for "love and a lasting relationship."
#7. Cute-Boy has much trouble finding something "meaningful".......but when at last he does + 'tide is running' smoothly, who should show up but.............Cute-Chum.
#8. After "catch up" time on park bench, Cute-Boy must head off for appointment.......but Cute-Chum wants to tag along.
#9. FIN (uh, I mean The End......really!)
-BEHIND THE STORY---
#1. Too Cute-Director/Writer (behaviorally, not physically) creates an, in-the-end, confusing series of flashbacks (presumably to give us a sense of more than the bare plot that's actually there).
#2. Photographically, Too Cute-D/W gives us confusing melange (uh, I mean mix) of a color palette (washed out in home town scenes / brightly colorful in Big-City ones). Actually, he probably meant to do that.......but which way DO we adjust our monitor's color scale?
#3. Too Cute-D/W's scene lighting for sex scenes is catastrophic, particularly to gay viewers (who else would there be?). One can tell (from soundtrack) there's lots of action going on, but it's so frustratingly dark that any enjoyment is lost (turning up bright-level only leads to a "washed out" picture). You can bet if this were "hetero-sex" the scenes would be as brightly lit as the Sahara Desert at noon.
#4. Too Cute-D/W's sense of what makes a fulfilling story and, especially, how to end it seems to this viewer (to again use the word) 'frustratingly' out-of-kilter. I've already told you about the final scene; what you've still not been told is the movie's running time. This film (uh, I mean "work of art"?) times out at just about a very brief 55 minutes. To make matters look even worse, the DVD Extras---with a "Making Of Featurette" wherein Too Cute-D/W and others explain this production to us---clocks in at a hefty 32(!) minutes. When a film explanation takes nearly two-thirds the length of the feature, we viewers out here have to wonder......don't we?
PS--Points given for a coupl'a or three 'hotties' and for hot sex (but only for the hearing-empowered).
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