Review of Plan B

Plan B (I) (2009)
3/10
A failed experiment...
4 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers
About the first half of this had me intrigued. I found the pace too slow, the long stares got tiresome – way overdone – and the inertness of the characters was really annoying. But the concept was interesting – what if? But who are these people? We learn nothing at all about them, they're apparently just slackers who smoke pot and have sex and moon about. So they're just boring. I liked that it was treated seriously – here in the States it would be played as the broadest possible slapstick comedy, Three Stooges level, with lots of fart jokes, and it would end with both guys getting married – to girls – and doing a high five to cement their new - very straight, very "normal" - friendship. So this approach was refreshing – is Argentina really that accepting of gays? The thing is, the farther it went, the less believable it was, and the ending felt like a silly fantasy. I just don't believe these two guys would hop into bed together. I didn't believe they were really in love, it felt forced. The scene where they first almost get it on ended believably – Pablo realized he wasn't into guys, and that should have been that. From there on it felt contrived and forced and wrong. And I'm gay, by the way, that's why I watched this, it supposedly had a gay theme. But it's not a gay story. Two straight guys deciding to try kissing and whatever isn't gay, it's just weird.
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