By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. For an undercover cop in , the art of baiting gay men into propositioning you in public restrooms is a grotesque art form that requires a strict adherence to the rules.
Andrew has no idea what Lucas does for a living, simply thinking that his attempts to pick up cute guys at the mall were a success. A rendezvous at a midday film screening gives way to a greenhouse hookup, which eventually leads to sex in a van.
Andrew shows Lucas the ropes of gay life in an era of shame, encouraging him to visit the promised land of San Francisco, telling him that AIDS is avoidable if you use protection, and imploring him not to sleep with anyone multiple times in order to protect his own heart. Blyth, a rising star in Hollywood, gives the role his best effort, and his movie star looks cover a few sins. But the attempts to visualize his feelings seldom work as well in practice as they do in theory, and the rapid editing during some of his anxiety attacks exposes the artificiality of their own effect.
The world simply did not need another montage that cuts between hardcore gay sex and a man walking around agonizing about whether he did something wrong.
The film lacks either the ambition or the resources โ or potentially both โ to make any of the stylized sequences truly immersive from a sound, color, and narrative perspective, reducing the editing style to a distraction during a film that was already falling flat.
