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Reviews
Antarctica (2008)
Beautiful
Life is full of metaphors and this is a great interpretation. A romantic tale, a love of fantasy and could have beens............... I really enjoyed this movie. It was engaging and had me hooked from the start. It was hot and the mirrors started to steam as i was introduced to the characters, satisfied with the pornesque start i didn't much care for content. The shots and the arrangement of images would have satisfied me for the entirety of the movie. But little did i know that i was just watching the caterpillar before the butterfly. The process is the movie. Well done to the director and the actors to a collage of beauty. "No matter how big the world is from a village to a city of millions you live within the same shell with the same circumference."
Shortbus (2006)
Finding Neverland in New York.
What a wonderful fairy tale of a movie.
Everybody wants to go to a land of fantasy. Somewhere as a kid you would dream of exiting to. An escape, a portal, a place of pleasure. And along comes Short Bus.
Is there a neverland in NZ?
Anyhow, The characters are amusing, exciting and just pitiful and i felt the need or want to understand each of them and there journey to be in that place of pleasure that metaphorically neverland is. This is either achieved physically via shortbus or mentally through connection of finding that intimate moment with another person.
Love it, love it, love it.....
This is engaging, teeth clenching and can be just a down right hard-on.
Hate Crime (2005)
What a drab movie...
For movie night tonight we have chosen Hate Crime. What a disappointing and lack luster movie this turned out to be. I have lost 100mins of my life that i will never get back. To its credit there are some positives: * Gay characters that fit into society like in reality. They aren't cliché queenies. * A clever twist to finish it off. Now why didn't they put this creativity into the other 80mins of the movie. * Closets are usually gay themselves. I love this revelation and believe this to be true in most instances of homophobia. A great expose of the psychological dynamics of straight s who hate gays.
Now the negatives: * The movie evolves so slow i started to focus on the irritating texture of the couch covers i was sitting on while watching this. * Characters lack depth, i had no emotional connection. So when the tragic pivotal event occurred I decided to make a cup of coffee. * Its like a B grade thriller. With little build up and suspense. I was never participating in the movie itself. * This movie's content is created by the intolerance of one way of thought to another. Yet portrays intolerance itself in it's journey. ie. Church mongers hate gays. Horrible events occur. Church people are closeted gays who hate gays!.
As a gay man this film has a responsibility because of its content which it clearly ignores. "I don't put down others to make myself feel better".
The content base is controversial. Though this movie is not the movie to depict it. Stay Clear...