A Revry original, Unconventional is a really well-liked queer dramedy that feels totally different from the usual stuff. The heart of the story is about two pretty eccentric queer siblings and their partners trying to build a family that doesn't follow the traditional rules. It takes a super raw and unfiltered look at queer life, diving deep into things like mental health, addiction, and how complicated identity and relationships can get. It’s not afraid to get messy or show people at their most vulnerable, and it really pushes boundaries while showing a lot of different queer experiences. The first season has nine episodes, and each one is about a half-hour long. The story centers on Noah, a grad student who’s been struggling for years to wrap up his PhD. He’s been with his husband, Dan, for nine years, and they’ve recently gotten married and moved to Palm Springs. While they're trying to figure out how to start a family and have a baby, they decide to shake things up by in...
26 year old Maciej lives with his very devout catholic mother in Austria. When he heard death of his friend (who was apparently his boyfriend), he asks her to move back to Poland with his father, to which she readily agrees. The very religious mother and the open minded Jew father never got along and things have not changed. The mother is very overbearing and wants her son to get married asap. Things change when Maciej meets David through a friend and they both instantly fall in love. When she finds out, she throws him out of home and the two men start living together enjoying their life as best as they can. Soon Maciej finds out that he has full blown HIV, almost AIDS and he doesn't have too long to live. Virus was probably transmitted by his ex-boyfriend. His mother is unsympathetic of the news and tells him that he deserved it. David takes care of the little man until he dies.
Lets talk about the color first. The mother always wore red (so did Maciej most times). Even her furniture had red cover over it. The father always wore blue. No one ever pink, but I ma guessing that's a tribute to queer son. Now, I can't be sure but if I had o guess, red color was symbol of being riding in religious beliefs, yellow represented the flexibility and openness like Maciej's father did. So that way it was an interesting representation. But talking of the film, it had many loopholes. The mother's character and the actor playing it were both bad. When a woman is so staunch catholic, how did she allow herself to get pregnant before marriage? Whats up with making faces and throwing shot around to represent anger. The actress was really bad and over the top. Father was interesting and showed more modern dew anting his son to be happy. David and Maciej's love just happens to all of a sudden within a night that its almost impossible to comprehend and believe. David is like a poster boyfriend that everyone wants but doesn't exist. And finally lets talk about AIDS. This is modern world 2020 film. I have not heard of people getting AIDS and dying so quick because of it. There are treatments available for HIV that prevent this from going to full blown AIDS. How I wish the makers had done their homework. As actor Maciej is just average as the confused repressed individual unsure of where to take things. The very hot and handsome David was the only redeemable thing about this film.
Overall the film doesn't offer anything new. I think it had a very low budget because at many places, it was obvious that background greenery was all green screen poorly done VFX. I wouldn't recommend it. (3/10)
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