6/10
wasted potential, erotic and offensively drab
19 July 2020
I had the weirdest hour watching the film as it traverse you to the uncanny and unprecedented chambers of romance and trauma weaved together into a single film. Its one gem lies on how it handled the bitter truths about sexual abuse, acceptance, and homosexual struggle, as well as a working poor on wits end, coercion, or simply being tangled everyday between a rock and a hard place, which makes it so painful because it's true.

There was no glamour or stirring scene, but rather dour, unpleasant upbringing attitudes except for the sister, Betina. There were no payoffs especially to the affair he had with Julio (Juan Salmieri). And suffocating chemistry he has with Ramirez, uninteresting main character with generic acting from Ariel (Wall Javier) and most of its minor characters dragging the already drab storyline.

The movie came out 2019 but it looks so rustic and frumpish, it felt being in the 90's soap operas of uninteresting slow burn genre with no direction. The plot goes haywire by the second and trivially introduces character that doesn't by any chance glue the film cohesively or make any difference.

Personally, the story felt like an old, erotic novel, or an afternoon drama flick series for adults in their 60's that have 600+ episodes that pays more attention to the sex details rather than the life after the sex, of which unfortunately made into a one film. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Story wise? It has potential. Execution? Painful.
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