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L'homme que j'aime (1997)
A beautiful movie!
Such a beautifully made movie. Definitely one of the best gay movies I have ever watched.
In the end the movie, I found I really began to care about the characters and all i could wish is for Martin to be alive.Two actors' performance are simply superb.And there is no explicit sex scenes, no cheap laughters, no foul languages, just the subtle yet strong love between Lucas and Martin, which I could really feel. My only slight reservation is just the tragic end. Why did one of the character always have to die in a gay themed movie? But,still,this movie definitely moved to tears.
My rate:10 out of 10
Queer as Folk (2000)
upon the end of season 4
I just finished the season 4 finale of QAF, and the only thing I want to say at this moment is "who cares?" Nothing in the season finale is interesting enough to hold my attention to wait for the next season. Oh right, I don't even care whether there is gonna be a next season.
Apart from a couple of good scenes(not episodes), the whole season completely bored me to tears. The only story I liked is Em's affair with the football player--Drew (BTW,this dude is totally hot). And I definitely hope the actor could make a reappearance next season. Em helping his closeted boyfriend come out sounds like an interesting story to me.
At first, I was very excited when I knew Michael and Ben were going to get married, but greatly disappointed after I realized that the wedding was a total disaster: Pro. Bruckner's unbelievably unromantic proposal, Mikey's unreasonable hesitation and lack of enthusiasm as well as the haste and simple arrangement of the wedding successfully made it so not exciting and ruined the climax of the show. I kinda hope there would be a bigger celebration when they are all back to Pittsburgh next season, but it's not going to be as exciting, isn't it?
As for Brian and Justin, there were some sparkles between them in S4, but I also noticed Justin's insensitivity and ridicule towards Brian when Brian decided to participate in the Liberty Ride. And Brian's becoming more responsible and sophisticated was supposed to bring the show into another level, not make it more dull. And the writers easily achieved the latter goal. In the end of the season, Brian seemed so exhausted and vulnerable. It's not the same person in the previous seasons, and I don't like this Brian.
Also, in this season, the writers of QAF seemed rather enthusiastic to incorporate some heterosexual elements into the show. Both Linz's fcuking another guy and Hunter's dating a girl are totally not interesting stories for a gay-themed TV series. Don't we have enough heterosexual love in other series? Apparently not to Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman.
And last, we have our poor tenor and accountant Ted. The poor guy was completely invisible to me in this season and didn't contribute anything to the story. And his self-effacing and low self-esteem is really getting boring.
I prefer to think that the writers exhausted their brains to come up with something new and interesting, although their efforts are 90% in vain to me. But by thinking in this way, I am able to think that they are still trying and have reasons to expect a better season next year, if there is going to be one.
Spin the Bottle (1998)
A very surprising end for me.
..............spoilers within.....................
It all happened during the reunion of 5 childhood friends - Ted, Bev, Alex, Rachel and Jonan. The movie is set in a lakeside cabin that they used to play in when they were kids. Ted and Bev were just engaged and Ted feels very uncomfortable about this reunion for some unknown reasons. Alex seems to be sexually aggressive and starts to flirt with Ted upon their arrival. Rachel is still traumatized by the break up with her boyfriend. And when Jonan finally shows, the three girls are immediately attracted to him. They keeps on talking about Jonan's piercing, his perfect figure and possibility about sleeping with him.
After dinner, Jonan suggests they play "spin the bottle" and everyone agrees. And during the game, almost everyone gets a chance to kiss each other: Ted and Alex, Alex and Jonan, Jonan and Rachel.... Personally I think this is the best scene of the whole movie. You could clearly see the jealousy, embarrassment and sexual tense between these 5 people.However, after Ted gets the chance to kiss Jonan, he suddenly leaves the game without any reason.
After the game, Jonan manages to sleep with both Bev and Ted. And we learned that Ted and Jonan had a history back then. Apparently Ted chose to protect himself and abandoned Jonan when people found out about them, which caused Jonan to hate Ted for a very long time. And this is the reason why Ted feels uncomfortable about this reunion: he was afraid Jonan would not forgive him. When Jonan tells Ted that he forgives him,Ted is released . And we could tell that Ted was still in love with Jonan, even when Jonan tells him about sleeping with Bev, he was not very angry.
Later, Ted and Bev confess with each other about both sleeping with Jonan. And Bev is furious.
The next morning during breakfast, Bev let all her anger out on Jonan and everyone is surprised to learn about their affairs. Both Jonan and Bev ask Ted to make a choice. And Ted chooses Jonan. Bev got furious again and storms out of the cabin. Alex and Rachel also leaves. Just when i think the movie is gonna end rather ideally - from a gay man 's perspective :-), comes the unexpected. After everyone leaves, Jonan tells Ted that he is going to leave too and seems very repulsed by Ted. Ted is confused. And Jonan tells Ted that he's never stopped hating Ted. Ted's coward behavior made his entire life miserable. And the whole thing is just a revenge. Then he leaves.
In the end of the movie, Ted, we could tell, though devastated, feels happy that he is finally able to embrace who he is.
In general, the movie has very good plot. I really start to care about these characters. Though the end of the movie was a bit too much of a surprise to me, I still liked it.
My rating : 8/10.
The Perfect Score (2004)
A very mediocre production, if not a disaster.
I watched the movie because I am very interested in the theme. There is also such a standardized exam in my country that every student hates.But nobody has the guts to make a movie like this which says what every high school student wants to say and mocks at the exam and the system behind it.
However, the movie itself is a very mediocre production, if not a disaster. It's not funny. I don't think I laughed even once. And the plot is totally predictable and not reasonable. I guessed the part of them not using the answers at the end only half way through. And I still can't understand why they decided to figure out all the questions of the test when they are still in the EST building instead of copying the questions and getting the hell out of the place as soon as possible. Then, they could work out the test when it's safe and less pressured.
My ranking: overrated 4 out of 10 for a very interesting theme.