Salvaje Despertar (Spanish) [Wild Awakening]

Part erotic, part porn and a whole lot of unnecessary gay stuff thrown in best describes this film in a summary. The sad part is that, the film's story had potential and under an able director this could have made for a good cinema. Alas! this wasn't meant to be.

The film starts with disappearance of Ramon and three people being questioned about it. It's then a drag queen comes in and tells the story in flashback. Toni and Emma are a brother/sister duo who own and run a horse farm. The farm's foreman is Ramon, who has been with them since their parents days and now his son Ramon also works with his father. Emma mostly manages the farm and so does Toni but Toni is gay, and also spends a lot of time in clubs, parties and drugs moving from man to man. Emma likes Aaron but he refuses his advances. interestingly around tis time, Toni starts to realize how hot Aaron is and starts pursuing him. Turns out, Aaron is indeed gay and the two men get on it. Aaron's father is homophobic and is constant slurs against Toni's sexuality has been a fear in Aaron's mind in his inability to come out. But the father sees Toni and Aaron together. Turns out that the homophobic father himself has been historically interested in boys. And this is when Aaron disappears. Toni blames Ramon for killing his son and in a fit of anger and fight ends up killing him. It's only later we find the truth about Aaron's disappearance.

As you can see the story is interesting but you can clearly see that the idea was to make it erotic. Half naked men working on farm, all of them gay, randomly hooking up; added no value to the film whatsoever. We do get an idea that Toni is a player, but why keep pushing that in our face, again and again. it was interesting to see how eventually Toni does get interested in Aaron, who by the way is so hot. He looks drool worthy in his one piece overall he wears throughout to work in the farm. The whole angle of Toni's ex suddenly coming back and wanting to be with him was so random. The sad part os even thought they makers were probably going for erotic thriller, the film had so sensuality or passion whatsoever. The guys were hot and acted decent but overall the pieces were not fitting together because there was a whole lot of hogwash added every few minutes.

A decent story, but bad execution (isin't that always the case), cheesy story, and too many unnecessary characters and sub plots. Watch for some good eye-candy but that's it. (4/10)

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