This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
The film starts with Aleksandr doing his sessions with his therapist and we keep going into flashbacks. He had moved to NY with his mother and sister in search of their father. His father had long abandoned them for his boyfriend. But after his mother's suicide, he manages to find a job as a "dancer". he meets a wealthy man Keith and goes with him to his hotel because he is longing for company and love but is shocked when Keith offers him money for sex. when the scenario is repeated a couple of times, he takes up being prostitute to make money but also searching for friendship and love. Aleksandr eventually meets a much older man Tom who is interested in him, but Alexandr is not interested. The films goes on and on on how he eventually gets into drugs and more sex and how his life is spiraling out of control. It's only when he meets a much older man and has sex with him, who turns out to be his father is when he sees the reality for what it is.
Alexandr also happens to be the director of the film, so you can only imagine that his presence is there pretty much in every scene of the film. To be fair to him, does a credible job of portraying the vulnerable desperation of a young man left on his own in a place where being alone is a dangerous place to be, minus the accent. But, its hard to sympathize with a grown up man, who keeps making one bad decision after another and then blames everyone around him for all the wrong happening with him. Talking of acting, lets talk about the therapist. Worst acting ever. So plastic, no compassion for the patient and the oddest dialogues ever given to her. Big thumbs down. Alexandr looks good and acts decent but is let down by a bad repetitive script and poor direction. Its really hard to empathize and feel for the main guy and his miseries.
Below average is how I would rate this film. There is a lot of better stuff out there. (4/10)
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