Len is a Surf Lifavg champn, a legend the cloistered surf club jt like his father. When the younger, faster, and fter Phil arriv at the club, Len’s legendary stat starts to cmble. Then Len se Phil arrivg the pany of another man. Phil is gay.
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What you may not anticipate is that this is not entirely due to s them of warrg homophobia and homoeroticism the ultra-Atralian, ultra-mascule ntext of surf-lifavg clubs.
If you are to low self teem, self loathg, masochism, homophobia, alholism, hioly mean spired abive overly self dulgent psychotic self stctive dus - then this is your movie! A distasteful and anachronistic look at homophobia. While 's 'parent", the UK has bee the oppose extreme of beg ultra-liberal to the pot of tolerance for anyone wh an opn ntrary to the stat quo, Atralia ntu to lag behd attus and tolerance towards homosexual men.
GAY CULTURE
This is evinced the dynamics between the two protagonists; one a gay man, Phillip and another what seems to be a type-A closeted gay man, Len. And the revelatn that Len is fact homosexual is not at all a revelatn sce is allud to throughout the film, which mak anti-climactic. Amazg and Origal Gay drama om Atralia.