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YOUNG, SELF-ACCEPTG GAY MEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT LOW-BUDGET MOVI
Though s nng time is only 70 mut, I was bored by the Argente gay movie El Tercero (2014, wrten and directed by Rodrigo Guerrero), pecially the seemgly termable vio flirtatn at the start.
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Eventually, we’ll see that Christopher’s divorced mother Carol [Amy Luz] is also totally acceptg of her gay son. The love of the young gay men hs a bump, but one unrelated to their beg gay or Benny beg Mexin Amerin.
WHAT SUGGTS EDMUND MIGHT BE GAY?
The makg-of featurette go overboard everyone lovg everyone else SO much, but O’Donnell (who also has a short bon feature of his own) mak very clear that gay “love now” may not be burned wh the homophobia wh which many have stggled to recent tim and that everyone Akron (and the other lotns) was helpful, knowg that the movie was a gay love story. Beg gay was also not problematic for any of the threome the Argente movie. 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.