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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Jealoy, homophobic fears and unrequed lt culmate a tragic booze-fueled episo of near-fatal surf lifavers on a big night out. Jealoy, homophobic fears and unrequed lt culmate a tragic booze-fueled episo of near-fatal productn, box office & pany Vios2More like this6. 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.
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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. Phil is also gay and on a dnken night out thgs e to a head – no pun tend. There is a nstant throb of homo eroticism that termgl wh the ordars of what is actually happeng and juxtapos all the emotns that the players are gog cematography is tly brilliant too and that is by Dean Francis who -eded; so I hope to see more good stuff om him.
This film tak a lens to homophobia and pletely ph to an over the top, melodramatic, badly eded, annoyg sad part is the st seemed reasonably good at actg but uld have done well wh anythg else, even the most simplistic story would have allowed them to she. One of the worst films I've seen a long time, gay themed or otherwise.