My friend at work is more into gay independent dramas. Mostly romantic comedy and perky gay independent cinema. Still, I recommended The Lost Coast to him.
While I can appreciate a lot of the efforts, and some both thoroughly impresses and inspires me, unfortunately, they're a rare breed. Sad. I wish there were more for the world to see.
And even though I support the creation of such ideas in these all-but film-student's heads, I wish more would be in the main stream. There should be more mountains out there than just the broken back kind!
That all said, I really liked this extremely short, yet, slow moving drama of the adventures of the E-Group through San Francisco on Halloween night. Basically, and it is a basic premise, four friends are wanting to continue their Halloween partying by scoring some ecstasy. Failing in a more serious tone than Quick Change's band of criminal's comical journey outside of NYC, these kids (yeah – anything 10-15 or so more years younger than yours truly are KIDS to me) must make it from point A (the street scene) to point B (the other side of town) to get their drug.
All the while, they learn about each other, namely the straight (and engaged) dude, Jasper (McGregor) and his potentially curious past nature with his promiscuous best (and openly) gay guy, Mark (Alifano.) They throw in the obligatory fag-hag (per se) Lily (Benner) and mischievous friend, Caleb (Yule) to move things/plot along.
While the eye-candy is abundant, for both older and younger crowds, my award for best in show was McGregor. Of course, while that's neither here nor queer, the performances, the mood and the wonderful cinematography of a different POV of the city's nightlife, forests, park and beach, is what grabbed me. I know Lily's costume of a mask on the back of her head was a prop, it was pretty cool to see her always walking away from the camera.
Now, the movie's not without its faults, such as the out-of-left-view dead body incident that comes and goes in a flash – does this really happen often in either these people's lives or the city's, or the pacing problem. But at 74 minutes, it's worth a viewing. It won't change your minds, but it will give you more perspective on the straight and open-mind'ness of guys of today's times. When it used to be such taboo to not cross lines, no matter what – thanks macho men of the 70s, it's refreshing that people can open up.
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