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 ...
Emiliano is a documentary director, who apparently has a thing for young male dancers. He lays his smoldering eyes on the hot young Octavio and the two quickly begin an affair. Octavio becomes emotionally attached, to his eventual disappointment, to the philandering Emiliano, who also makes no secret of his disdain of commitment, but asking to rent a boy for threesome and other such incidents. Time passes, and Octavio moves on to dance school while Emiliano finds himself floundering and stuck in a relationship with a hustler named. Things between Octavio and Emiliano eventually come full circle, but not before an odd, lengthy film-within-a-film glimpse of Emiliano’s latest, sexually-explicit production. (Are you confused yet?)
The film is very heavy on slow, sensual storytelling, which, like I said before, if examined as individual scenes look gorgeous, but bringing them together as a film is nothing but confusion. I feel a much more linear straightforward narration would have been so much better. Octavio has sex with Emiliano, he then has a threesome with 2 women (or is he dreaming?), then suddenly after their breakup, out of nowhere a film within film comes, which is the weirdest part of the film. There is lot of nudity and action but nothing manages to hold your attention at the end of it. Maybe I'm not arty enough, maybe I missed tons of metaphors, but to me it was just boring and a waste of some pretty young guys. The only saving grace is that both leads are gorgeous to look at and can actually act well. Only if the film maker wasn't so pretentious to waste people's talent and audience's time. (3.5/10)
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