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 ...
Petros, a 45-year-old office archaeologist, has just come out of a long-term relationship, disillusioned by the romantic notion of self-less love. During a visit to the ancient theater of Argos, he will meet Hussam, a young Arab immigrant who eventually becomes his lover. As you can imagine, Hussam sometimes has these guilt situations given his Arab origins, but also something about Petros that makes him want to be with him. Petros also helps manage a small music group of young Albanians, two men and one woman, who come and start living with him, out of the blue. It feels Petros is the helping kinda guy. Petros and Hussam have occasional arguments around love, immigration , money and sex. Soon Hussam also moves in with him, constantly reminding him that he is there for love because if he wanted, he can get enough money for sex, being young and Arab. In fact he does trick out occasionally. He also sometimes steals from Petros but really still loves him. I don't know, their relationship is never really clear to me. At some point Hussam also meets Petros' family who welcomes them and then as randomly the film started, it ends. In between this main story, Petros meets a bunch of "different" people, who leave an impression on him and who affect him financially or emotionally.
As I mentioned before, this film doesn't amen much sense in terms of what it is really trying to say. If you read the official synopsis, don't get fooled by it. The film is quite different and unsure of its purpose. Ambitious in its scope - an anatomy of post-crisis life in Athens with an emphasis on LGBTQ and immigration themes - , it veers off a bit too quickly to predictable melodramatic tropes. And then it suddenly goes from black and white to color in the last 5 minutes. The actors playing Petros and Hussam are both quite good looking and hot (or maybe that's just my type) and we do get see some kissing and ass shots, which are good for eye-candy, but overall as a film, it is a huge disappointment. (2.5/10)
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