This one falls into that darker corner of gay cinema. There was real potential buried in here, but the execution feels so flat that at points it plays out more like a filmed stage play than an actual movie. It's a dark psychological drama built around a street hustler confessing to a brutal, confusing murder of his own lover. Black and white flashback sequences do a solid job laying out the details of what happened, but the real focus stays on the dialogue and the writing itself. Right at the start, a young hustler has already killed his male lover Claude. Three days go by before he calls the police to turn himself in for the murder. But instead of just reporting it somewhere ordinary, he actually summons the police and the local press directly into a judge's private chambers. Yves has keys to the place, which tracks given what he does for a living, but having the press waiting right outside makes the whole scene look like some elaborate blackmail scheme against the judge. The ...
Richard (Dick) is the son of a Maureen Whiteman, a Q-anon, conspiracy-focused, money and power-hungry republican politician running for Mayor in a city in Rhode Island. Dick has a fiancé of many years now, but in secret he isn closet and watches gay porn. When the fiancé finds out and tells her mother, she knows exactly what she needs to do, take him to conversion therapy. She has him taken to the “Clinic for the Terminally Dandy,” an evil right wing conversion therapy organization, run by evil Doctor Hyde. But before he knows it, Dick gets kidnapped by “Clinic for the Fabulously Dandy” run by the twin of the other doctor, Jekyll. The former is trying to 'convert' him, while the latter is trying to get Dick to com out of closet. He keeps getting kidnapped between the two organizations and as expected, between the two, Dick is very disoriented. I mean, we know what direction the film will eventually go where Dick finally gets the courage to be out and proud and even having find a boyfriend through the clinic.
Every single frame and thing about this film is over the top. From the sets to the acting to the dialogues; I mean look at the story itself and there is even sock puppets. There are a plenty of erotic segments with quite a few dick shots, sex simulations, though occupied by nudity, are more suggestive than outright explicit. The film feels more than like a school project fantasy who had more than enough budget on their hands. This could easily also be taken as a spoof of sorts, but of what? I can see what the makers were trying to do here, but this film failed to get my attention at any level. I did not find the jokes funny, or the situation, or the whole gaudy colorful setting or the OTT acting. These kind of films have never been my thing. Not everyone can take on a successful Wes Anderson interpretation. And for me the film fails majorly. This is going to appeal to a very very niche audience. (3/10)
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