After reading the original book, I was very excited when the trailer came out. I probably swiped it hundreds of times. Finally, I was glad that I was in LA when the movie was released in the United States, because only some theaters in LA and New York had filming. When I first came on, I couldn't wait to see it alone. The theater was almost full. A few days later, I watched it again with my friends.
Compared with the original work, the plot has been cut, and the handling of the ending is different, but on the whole it still feels like the original work, so it did not disappoint me. But after reading it and discussing it with my friends several times, I still feel that there are a few shortcomings.
First of all, aside from the phenomenon of "gay for pay" that is already commonplace in Hollywood but unable to change the reality, compared to the heterosexual sex scenes in the film, the editing's handling of the same-sex sex scenes is very subtle, so that it seems that the same-sex sex is not More heterosexual. Granted, the treatment is still beautiful, but if you downplay same-sex sex and focus on opposite-sex sex, it doesn't feel like it's just two fluid men going on a gorgeous adventure that summer, And that makes the movie seem ungay enough. Compared to the description in the book, homosexuality is definitely stronger and more prominent than heterosexuality.
Secondly, although Hammer's acting skills are not bad, they are really dwarfed by Timothee. I really want to award Timothee with the golden man in my heart. Timo has fully acted the youthful ignorance of a 17-year-old boy, and he himself is 22 years old. On the contrary, Hammer, who is already 31 years old, suffers from a disadvantage in appearance. Friends who have not read the original book said that they cannot tell that he is a 24-year-old youth in the original book.
In the end, I would still classify this movie as a gay movie because it is about the love between two men. In the end, Oliver's choice is also based on the original, and it is understandable considering the fact that homosexuality was not generally accepted in the 1980s, and does not affect his gay identity.
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