Coming out of the same studio that gave us RuPaul's Drag Race, and stacked with a whole crew of former contestants, Stop! That! Train! plays like RuPaul basically taking a bow for the entire franchise she's built. It's not really a gay film in the traditional sense, but with so many drag stars from Ru's shows popping up alongside a few cameos from well known out gay actors, I figured it earns a spot on this blog anyway. The whole thing is completely over the top, packed with GenZ slang, loud flashy visuals, and humor that's constantly winking at you knowing how ridiculous it is. Going in you'd assume it's meant to be a laugh riot, and a lot of critics online seem to be eating it up, but I just couldn't get into it at all. I've never really been someone who vibes with campy silly stuff like this, so honestly my reaction doesn't surprise me one bit. The setup follows Tess and DeeDee, two low level stewardesses who sneak onto the fancy Glamazonian E...
It is odd that this film is being promoted as a gay film. There is an unresolved subtle and all- but-avoided ambiguity around the lead Sebastian, but it's more of a tease than anything substantial and i wonder who exactly it is in there for ?Sebastian and Mikhael are best friends in a small town. They spend their times together. Seb works in his father's garage. One night when Seb watches Mikhael making out with a girl in the woods, he is hurt. The next 2 days , he doesn't talk to his friend. One day during a football match, Mikhael while hanging on the goal post gets injured and dies. Enter the mayor of the town in the scene who is the subject of suspicion. The town's mayor must face the fact of his office's possible culpability. His son Francis wants to be friends with Seb (I got the feeling that he had soft corner for Seb) and tries to get closer to him now that Mikhael is dead. Also in the scene is Mikhael's mother, who has already lost a husband, must now come to terms with her grief. The film basically follows Seb and the mayor. The mayor is someone who is soon to undergo a life trial involving an unexpected death. Seb is someone who has to deal with loss of a friend and make amendments with life and also become close to Mikhael's family.
The film was slow and a lot of emotions in the film were left to be felt and imagined by the viewer. This kind of direction comes in very impressive in most situations but in others it just falls flat because some actions of the individuals are not justified. The "gay" angle is subtly understated. Seb's loneliness is palpable, and he has trouble reaching out to others and sharing what is in his heart. The good part of the film is when Seb is trying to make for his loss of not being with Mikhael by trying to be loving to the girl he was fooling with, his mother and also his sister
It takes time to get used to the film. On afterthoughts, you will like it. (5.5/10)
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The characters all desire Seb now he is alone and in mourning: all desire to fill his tender void, to bed him, to poses him and drown in his quiet grief: he will have none of them. An adoring male suitor touches Seb's bleeding hand and heart, strokes, tries to soothe Seb's pain, stains Seb's heart with his paint gun, Seb rages: I don't want you, I want Mik.
A first love: In Seb one sees the purity, fragility of a heart untouched of love, now lusts for his first love, an intense homoerotic longing, as Euryalus, for his Nisus......
You are a good writer.. my friend
I felt this myself, the only once in my life: 17, beardless as any virgin, sweaty, Greek gym-youth, in an adjacent bed, when Fleck took my hand to his bed and kissed the back of my hand, no Bosch, no Marquis, no Faust nor his Gounod, could have prepred me for that instant when, taking his hand to my cheek, touched Fleck's eager thrust, cheek to skin, my existence was subsumed into an intense ejaculation that Buber taught me to await that moment of I-Thou, if G-D exists it is now or ever: Seb brought all that to me in a flash, a flush, a fusion, an ejaculation so spastic an epileptic would be envious, I slipped into sleep.
A frustrated, horny post questioned what this film had to do with gay love, clearly do not date this this guy.
you are really really good with words