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 story is primarily about three teenage boys. Peter, is an artist, whose mother knows he is gay but his father refuses to accept this and wants him to become a man. Miles regularly bullies Peter caling him faggot, but he is himself closeted gay. At home he has a very hostile relationship with his mother who resorts to prostitution for drugs. It turns out Miles has been using Jack for his sexual pleasure, who suffers physical and verbal abuse at the hands of his alcoholic single dad. When Peter goes for a hunting weekend with his father, they end up in a cabin where nearby Jack lives and somehow Miles and his girlfriend are also either passing by or live there or something of that sorts. Somehow Jack and Peter both run away form their dad, meet and spend next couple of days exploring each other and also maybe falling for each other. Not before Miles finds them and in a silly scene forces them to join a party otherwise he will out them. It didn't make any sense. Jack can't eventually take the abuse anyone and kills himself. Peter is heartbroken and so is Miles, who apparently really loved Jack.
The film is so odd right from the beginning. Its as if all kids are gay and all adults are messed up individuals and a community is unable to accept LGBT folks. The film tries to pack so much into a single film, that it never bothers to go into the details of either the psyche of these three individuals or their relationship with each other and their parents. The film touches upon suicide, drug addiction, sexuality and bullying, but it never really finds a strong way to explore them. Instead, each of the topics is touched upon and added to the story in a very surface level way. Besides the good looking leads, the film has noting going for it. Badly written screenplay nd equally bad direction, surely this film is nowhere bad to those horror vampire wanna be queer dramas, but then in 2021, there is no excuse for giving audience, nonsense like this which serves absolutely no entertainment or message or purpose. (3/10)
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