Dustin Lance Black has done a lot for the LGBT community, and this film made over 20 years ago was in my opinion miles ahead of most other films dealing with homosexuality at the time. The camera work is a bit over active for my taste, but the content of the narrative is fully realised. Corey Spears plays superbly a young USA Southerner who tentatively and sensitively discovers over the course of the film what his sexual and emotional desires are. Needing money he works for a blind woman and her elder son takes a liking to him, but he already has a lover. Dustin Lane Black shows honestly and with genuine eroticism the various needs gay men have, and Corey Spears in his role of Jared Price has to disentangle himself from some of them. The last half an hour of the film is outstandingly good and ends on a note of joy that even now is rarely achieved in cinema. It is in my opinion too good a work to disappear from view and I regret not seeing it when it first appeared. But aged it is not and should be valued as the treasure of love fulfilled that it is. It is certainly in my pantheon of fine LGBT films and anyone who appreciates the complexity of loving and living should see it.
Review of The Journey of Jared Price
