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- YOUNG, SELF-ACCEPTG GAY MEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT LOW-BUDGET MOVI
- GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
YOUNG, SELF-ACCEPTG GAY MEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT LOW-BUDGET MOVI
Benny and Christopher, stunts at Oh's Universy of Akron the new movie Akron, are not jt homeboys who grew up the same state; they're homo boys. As embodied by Matthew Frias and Edmund Donovan they're both openly-gay, well-adjted-gay, handsome-gay; plimentg each other the brown-eyed/blue-eyed, Lato/Wasp way of upl that you see TV mercials aimed at the gay market. Through Benny and Christopher, fai of different ethnici and social backgrounds are uned the acceptance of their gay first, this aspect of Akron seems dreamlike--unreal, if you pardon my cynicism.
The film avoids dramatic tensn (no homophobic social obstacle to overe) among Benny, Christopher and their super-tolerant, ethnilly diverse siblgs and schoolmat.
But while Akron is part of the unrreported subculture of gay die films--most of them direct-to-streamg (this one is distributed on DVD by Wolfe, the same pany releasg the great Paris 05:59: Theo and Hugo)--I nnot pretend that Kg and O'Donnell fulfill this story's emotnal and spirual potential. Related | Theo and Hugo: Love Story of the Queer YearSo much of watchg gay cema volv wish-fulfillment.
GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
Gay cema requir greater sensivy than the polil rrectns that Akron provis.
The film's story of gay pannship means to rolve that dream as great passn and, ed, exalted brotherhood. It prevents them om endowg this middle-Amerin homeboy love story wh that special somethg--that homo-boy sence--one se and feels Morrissey's "All You Need Is Me" mic vio.
) Akron is a nice try at normalizg gay romance, but the filmmakg needs the erotic and spirual mascule energy of great gay cema.