This one feels like it was made more for eye candy than anything else. The film is almost 15 years old now, so it might've been one of the earlier ones to touch on a throuple, or at least hint at it. It runs about 75 minutes, which makes it an easy sit, but with tighter editing and fewer repetitive scenes, it could've been a crisp little short film. Rene runs the family business to support his sick grandmother, while his aunt, who looks after her, keeps trying to match him up with different women so he'll finally settle down. The thing is, Rene's gay, and he's in love with his driver. He's way too shy and closed off to ever say it out loud, but one weekend he loosens up on a seaside trip with the guy he's crazy about. That night, after a lot of drinking, they sleep together and Rene finally admits how he feels. Still, he knows the driver has a long term partner he can't leave. Once Rene's had enough, he heads to the driver's house planning to tal...
Brian is a college freshman who has just moved in to his dorm. While settling in, he finds a thumb drive, which has a hidden folder with multiple videos of a webcam model with multiple different kinds of clients, with one including something that looks like the murder of the model. Brian becomes obsessed with trying to uncover the mystery and in this his brother/friend who also lives close to university helps me. We also meet Jeremy, Brian's dorm mate, who has a girlfriend but is secretly struggling with his sexuality. Jeremy and Brian end up sleeping together one night and now Brian has only two things on his mind, discover secret of thumb drive and Jeremy. The mysterious disappearance of the webcam model ends up with their lives being manipulated and blackmailed. Slowly layer by layer, secrets are revealed where we find somehow Jeremy is involved in these things and is hiding a secret. With some gruesome murders that follow and a gay rate story, the final secret is eventually revealed. A year passes, everyone has moved on, but none of it that happened might b real. The identity of the real culprit is revealed to a shocking truth.
There is so much that happens in last two minutes of the film and is so important that I wonder that the makers should have tried to incorporate that better in their film. I think the film would have received more attention in that case. But then he should also have replaced some/all of the actors. The plot is already thin, the acting is below average at best, with Brian being the worst. He just has no expressions at all. Jeremy was still better and the girls were ok. Why do these random college kids have to try and act so smart. Why not, be practical, go to the cops. The police just doesn't exist in this world. I also wasn't very lear about the webcam model. Did he really disappear or was he alive? What was the actual purpose of the iller, who gets revealed at the end? Was it just to get the girl? Also were the two instances really separate with two different people involved? The mystery doesn’t entirely play fair, not that it’s interesting enough to entice one into sticking with this. The acting is pretty bad, and there’s a general unpleasantness to the proceedings. You can feel that the director is trying to make a noir thriller with some really bad actors probably targeting at the gay audience. Bad. (2/10)
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