Trust me, the premise of the film, as I mentioned above, is just that. A group of friends talking about random things for a good 110 minutes, which are neither juicy, exciting or anything that I would care about. Every aspect of stereotypical gay literature is shown here. There is a confused married man, a new kid on the block from Nebraska, a self hating hustler, a mother drowning her son for being gay, a straight guy in a gay bar by mistake.
Being shot in a real location, the production lacks fitness. The lighting is dark and shadowy and at certain points even out-of-focus making it all seem quite amateurish. But if you forget that for a while, the direction lacks style. The film has no momentum at all. Half of the time I found myself confused between various patrons of the bar. There are multiple groups or one-on-one conversations happening in the bar, and the camera just cuts from one conversation to the other. The two stories that could have been interesting are just not explored enough. A young feminine man, for whom a straight guy has fallen, beats him up after realizing that he is a man could have made for a film in itself. The characters seemed full pf themselves, and as an audience I kept wondering that is it just a bad film or is it someone's idea of self indulgence hoping to create a masterpiece. (2/10)
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