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 takes its name from the FLH manifesto published in 1973, which in the film functions as the center of the story of the hard struggle carried out by the LGBT community from the formation, in the late 60s, of the first group Nuestro Mundo led by Héctor Anabitarte, until crowning with Equal Marriage and the Gender Identity law. From five testimonies of protagonists of those times (Jorge Luis Giacosa, Guillermo García, Valeria del Mar Ramírez, Daniel Molina and Alejandro Modarelli), issues like marginalization, discrimination and struggle in the most diverse fields are reconstructed.
It was an interesting perspective to see a lot of background imagery and videos constantly being shown behind the voiceover. That helps viewers keep their interest because constantly there is something new to stimulate your visual senses. Although after almost half way through the film, I started losing interest. Trying to keep up with subtitles and watching visuals and all became too much. Also, somewhere my interest in the story also started dwindling and I was like , I wish this film was tightly edited. Watching some of the historical aspects of how gays were treated back in the day not just in Argentina but other parts of the world was quite an eye-opener. I mean, by now we all know the story of how gay liberation has been a movement for many years and how some of the older generation have given their hard sweat and tears to make this happen, but seeing it every single time, opens up the same wounds. Anyway, overall this documentary was strictly ok for me and nothing that memorable. (3.5/10)
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