Review of Trick

Trick (1999)
7/10
Have a good time
27 October 1999
I went to see a feel-good movie and that was what I get from Trick. It is always a little tricky with romantic comedies. Some of them are awfully boring. However, when the acting is good (which it is in Trick) and the story is sweet but still somewhat related to reality (which it is in Trick, just remember the ending!) then I like to see them.

Campbell was great and the whole audience was on his side and suffered for him. Still I did not understand why he fall for Mark at all. Pitoc has little variety to offer when it comes to mimic and gesture. All of the supporting actors where excellent. Even Spelling was great. What I liked about them was that they did not only exist to support the story about Gabriel and Mark but had their own stories to tell. I especially liked that part about french breasts and prudish America.

Isn't it nice to sit in the cinema and see on the screen sweet sweet love? If you do not like that don't go to see Trick. Isn't it nice to be in sympathy with the main characters and hope for them that they will find each other? Again, if you do not care for that, don't see it.

I don't care whether this story is a realistic story about two gay men or whether it only shows a cliché of gay men. Show me a entirely realistic romantic comedy about a man and a woman!

It should be seen as a step towards normal behaviour when a story about gay love is allowed to be as sweet and unrealistic as Hollywood used to show love between man and woman for decades.
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