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 ...
Why, why, why do we continue to make such films? I mean, its 2020/21 for God's sake. Brilliant shows like 'Deuce' have tackled similar subjects. And then you take sub par actors with an even shoddier direction and you have a mess of a film that was never needed to be made.
Bradford is an aspiring dancer and Vincent has been his partner in crime in everything they do, including gay clubs and bathhouses. They slept in the beginning but are now good friends. When Bradford hurts himself and can no longer dance, they both decide that they can make a living by making gay porn and playing it in an arthouse Swedish theatre. He calls a few of his ex-tricks and hook ups and starts making films. The films succeed providing the duo with decent means of income, leading to both the men and the artists use of drugs and underground sex clubs. But success is short lived with drugs, cheap video technology and AIDS looming over.
It's hard to say whether the film was intentionally made bad or that's just how it is. There is a thin line between a bad movie and a satire of a bad movie. This film clearly looks like a really really bad movie. Badly acted. Almost trash, horribly directed with grainy camerawork and very very amateurish. I was hoping something better would happen or the story would take an interesting turn but nothing happens. You just wait and wonder why was this film ever made in the first place. (1.5/10)

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