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P STOP: GAY ROMANCE A SMALL TOWN TEXAS, A MOVIE BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER YEN TAN
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Sensively ma film about gay blue llar workers gettg over failed relatnships, hs the mark. Recent Spir Award nome have cropped up the past few years cludg 'Keep the Lights On' and 'In the Fay', sensively-ma films on a gay theme. Director/wrer Yen Tan, born Malaysia, but has based his films firmly the US queer cema soil, PIT STOP is his third feature, surprisgly nabbed a nomatn for John Cassavet Award 2014 Inpennt Spirt Awards, which on a bright si, bpeaks that is not an ual homo-erotic fare cranked out to gratifyg s niche are two paralleled stori take place a small town lled Dodge, Texas, about two gay men, Gabe (Heck) and Ernto (DeAnda), they are strangers the begng and sted to meet, but Tan patiently spends three-quarters of the time nstctg their rpective relatnship snags, then nsummat their enunter wh an timate and romantic fish touch to imply that a brand new start is is rehg to fd out that our protagonists are not stereotyped urban hipsters this time, their blue-llar background may suggt that they are more prone to homophobic hostily wh their social circl, so thanks God that Tan wisely leav enough lacunae to that ont, sce is too stale and signifint pared wh what he tends to explore, the ner stat which mostly reflects om their relatns wh the clost is a nstctn work ntractor, he was married before, and is recently dumped by his partner, a closeted fay man, who backtracks on their cisn to start a new life together.
The bt gay movie yet. P Stop is the story of two workg-class gay men their thirti - Gabe, a buildg ntractor (played by Bill Heck), and Ernie, a lumber-yard worker (played by Marc DeAnda) - a small town is divorced but still close to his ex-wife and dghter; the man he loved and left them for has dumped him and moved far away.
P Stop A fely nuanced portra of two gay men a small Texas town slowly fdg their way toward each other, "P Stop" is a low-key but ultimately eply satisfyg third feature om helmer/-scenarist Yen Tan ("Ciao"). * pit stop gay *
Bee of s unnventnal stcture and slow pace, has been wily cricized by amatr reviewers of gay this is by far the bt gay movie I have ever seen, and I've seen hundreds - all the on that are worth seeg and many more that aren't.
Far om the gay centers of the world, director Yen Tan explor the plex and oft-fotten liv of gay men small-town Ameri. * pit stop gay *
When the two men fally meet, 's the sweett, hottt stuff ever shown on any kd of screen anywhere on and Ernie are the realt uple ever any gay movie, and Bill Heck and Marc DeAnda are the bt actors who ever played gay characters. Every word, every sound, every movement, every gture, every glance of an eye or lift of an eyebrow is of any kd - gay or straight - jt don't get any better than this.
It is the story of two mid-thirtyish gay men, Gabe and Ernto, livg separate but not totally dissiar low key workg class liv the same Texan small town.