16 year old Luke wants to become a model. He lives in suburbs of NYC and uses Grindr to chat with men. He leaves home to go to city, when his father physically abuses him and he has had enough. He had been chatting with a model co-ordinator Rich who lets him stay at his place and pretty much take care of him. On the side we have this photographer named Tim, who has some sort of arrangement with Rich for shooting models where he pays him. I am not sure I understood that whole angle. Tim is closet gay with a fiancé and he keeps lying to himself. He takes a liking for Luke but Rich asks him to keep his hands off. One day Luke sees Rich literally abusing and forcing another young kid into prostitution but continues to stay with him. Soon the day comes when Rich asks Luke to go and make his client "very happy". Unwillingly Luke goes but eventually leaves and comes back. A very angry Rich rapes Luke and in a fight Luke kills Rich. Luckily, Tim, who has now been dumped by his fiancé, arrives there and takes on the blame on himself.
This film drags way too much. The shots just go on forever without rhyme or reason. Even from the stry perspective, it's boring and senseless. Random shots of people looking shocked or trying to emote is very laughable. Acting is terrible. Tim also happens to be director of the film and clearly obsessed with showing himself naked , for absolutely no reason whatsoever in the film. The only good thing about the film is Luke. He is really cute and acts decent. But I have to say that as a character, he clearly has no brain. Why would you stay with someone who clearly abuses, and then on top of that you come back to him after refusing to work for him. Clearly, he is looking for trouble. There are better ways to showing the message that NYC can be brutal being a meat grinder which eats some people up, chews on them, and spits them out.
A very badly conceived and executed movie that should never have been made. (3/10)
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