8/10
outstanding
18 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I missed this feeling while watching a film, That emotional tender you feel in your stomach at the end of a movie. Really beautiful and touching film. it's a plaintive story filled with melancholy its heartening and gladdening moments. This film, which unlike movies like Call me by your name rather than romanticizing love between two men it takes a realistic more relatable approach to it, with the same emotional density. This film is relatable because it portrays how a relationship between two guys from the middle class is, which isn't an easy or a forward situation, it demonstrates how subtle and on guard, the seduction is through perfect and stunning body language that filled the void when the dialogue was absent (acting is perfect), and made us feel how unsettled their couple is, far from the Hollywood mainstream gay or the big cities. As Juan expresses it at some point in the movie " I want a normal life, I don want to be pointed at" so there's this secret and discreet love due to fear of being exposed even if the two live together as roommates. on the other hand, Gabriel is the most interesting character, he has a girl and always seems to keep up with Juan's Duality, his eyes are full of melancholy and tiredness yet his face is comforting and ingenious and he's the most secure. He looks like the guy who's ready to take risks as he keeps up and try to ignore Juan's misadventures with his girlfriend until the point where Juan makes his choice which leaves the two devastated but while Juan is showed on the verge of tear staring at the void after he chooses to settle with his GF, Gab ends up quitting his job, starting over and opening up to his young girl in a stirring and heart-warming scene. A moment that shows a well-deserved resolution for a pure character.
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