Movies that depict flawed people are rarely popular, more so when they address a community that likes to keep it's real self hidden.
'Wrecked' is a low budget indie with so-so production values and the occasional poor acting. But that is soon forgotten as the viewer engages with Ryan, a boy trying to maintain a clean mainstream persona but who is continually undermined by his ex Daniel. This is their story. Ryan is weak: Daniel strong, and there is no feel-good ending for Ryan in this movie. To that extent it rejects Hollywood (US cinema?) values and looks to Europe for its depth of storytelling and richness of characters.
Ryan is engaging in his way but Daniel is magnetic in his use of sex and drugs as weapons. In a scene where Ryan, after a down-putting rejection over his career, walks in on Daniel having sex with another boy we'd expect Ryan (in your average gay flick) to fling a hissy-fit and try to throw Daniel out but rather he's immediately seduced by the pill in his mouth and the other boy on his bed. His slide continues.
The acting of the main leads is good: we 'get' them. The sex is astonishingly explicit: I'm surprised it was able to be released like this. This is a movie that tells it like it is and it will be criticised for that.
'Wrecked' is a low budget indie with so-so production values and the occasional poor acting. But that is soon forgotten as the viewer engages with Ryan, a boy trying to maintain a clean mainstream persona but who is continually undermined by his ex Daniel. This is their story. Ryan is weak: Daniel strong, and there is no feel-good ending for Ryan in this movie. To that extent it rejects Hollywood (US cinema?) values and looks to Europe for its depth of storytelling and richness of characters.
Ryan is engaging in his way but Daniel is magnetic in his use of sex and drugs as weapons. In a scene where Ryan, after a down-putting rejection over his career, walks in on Daniel having sex with another boy we'd expect Ryan (in your average gay flick) to fling a hissy-fit and try to throw Daniel out but rather he's immediately seduced by the pill in his mouth and the other boy on his bed. His slide continues.
The acting of the main leads is good: we 'get' them. The sex is astonishingly explicit: I'm surprised it was able to be released like this. This is a movie that tells it like it is and it will be criticised for that.