The movie set in the back street and the subject was the male prostitutes, a modern version of oliver twist with homosexuality as a subject matter. The movie has a tone of indie film, low budget, well-acted, well-directed. The main 2 character's acting was superb, very convincing as roles they play, one nihilistic, another as innocent.
There were questions opened in the film, social injustice, prejudice, poverty and sexual trade for living. The humanity, moral, cruelty and social injustice. Nothing justified here in the film, only questioning and narrating the matter, as there's no solutions perhaps. Simply at it is, thus, the director was doing a fine job.
The movie is very enjoyable, camera work has its tone right, the characters are isolated in the scene, the background were mostly empty and cold as reflection of the character's inner self. The music's lyric was relative to the subject and quite creates echoes in suitable tune.
A relation of opening scene and closing scene was impressive, one of the most memorable scene in years. That let you think of the subject, its endless, vulnerable situation.
Overall, it is very much a good film. However there are few things I didn't really follow the direction. It has too much sensitivity in the film. The characters are all too mellow, even the Faign's ...spoiler...death wasn't so convincing and it didn't build it to the climax. It was simply unexpected but not in a convincing way.
Also when David was forcing the oral sex performance, the transition between characters were too unrealistic, they never had those master and slave relations, it wasn't so convincing why David was crying, if he was simply displaying the cruelty.
When I said it was too mellow, I am not referring the graphical content, I quite like the fact that there's not much actual sex scenes, however, it was all too quiet to feel the volt, its poetic mood was harming the content and its intention. Like watching a protest on the street without the scream or bombing noise muted. There's no enough bang in the film to creates the echo, it was all too quietly disappearing when the movie finished, failing to create an howl to live on. As though you are walking out from the school play with a touch of adult context.
There were questions opened in the film, social injustice, prejudice, poverty and sexual trade for living. The humanity, moral, cruelty and social injustice. Nothing justified here in the film, only questioning and narrating the matter, as there's no solutions perhaps. Simply at it is, thus, the director was doing a fine job.
The movie is very enjoyable, camera work has its tone right, the characters are isolated in the scene, the background were mostly empty and cold as reflection of the character's inner self. The music's lyric was relative to the subject and quite creates echoes in suitable tune.
A relation of opening scene and closing scene was impressive, one of the most memorable scene in years. That let you think of the subject, its endless, vulnerable situation.
Overall, it is very much a good film. However there are few things I didn't really follow the direction. It has too much sensitivity in the film. The characters are all too mellow, even the Faign's ...spoiler...death wasn't so convincing and it didn't build it to the climax. It was simply unexpected but not in a convincing way.
Also when David was forcing the oral sex performance, the transition between characters were too unrealistic, they never had those master and slave relations, it wasn't so convincing why David was crying, if he was simply displaying the cruelty.
When I said it was too mellow, I am not referring the graphical content, I quite like the fact that there's not much actual sex scenes, however, it was all too quiet to feel the volt, its poetic mood was harming the content and its intention. Like watching a protest on the street without the scream or bombing noise muted. There's no enough bang in the film to creates the echo, it was all too quietly disappearing when the movie finished, failing to create an howl to live on. As though you are walking out from the school play with a touch of adult context.