Gaywatch: The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Seriously, you guys. The gayness follows me. Like The Mechanic, I did not sit down to watch this expecting to see any gayness of any kind. I sat down to watch this because I found a list of good movies centered around one location (a room, an apartment, what have you) and this was on it. Once again I was surprised by slash, only this time there was no ambiguity to be found. It's all canon.
Pictured above are Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston). They abduct Alice (Gemma Arterton) and handcuff her to a bed, planning to get a two million dollar ransom. To say any more would ruin a fucking compelling plot.
So, instead, I'll talk about the gay. I'm not exaggerating when I say this film is exactly the kind of gay entertainment I've been waiting for. Without the surprise Vic/Danny romantic involvement, there would be no movie. It's not thrown in there to be edgy, or to please the ladies in the audience by having two hotties make out (Danny's a cutie, but Vic is an everyman), the completely fucked up love between these men is 100% central to the plot. They're also villains, not because they're gay, but because of love (from Vic) and greed (from Danny).* When villains aren't gay just to demonize a minority, and when gays can be honest-to-god villains without someone getting huffy that homosexuals are painted as anything other than saints who go clubbing, that is real equality. This movie does it, and it does it so so very, very well.
Highly recommended if you like your gayness dark, complicated, and a little psycho. No worries for the squeamish, the movie isn't about blood and gore.
Movie Rating: 9/10
Canon Gayness Scale: 8/10 (10 being full on man-sex)
P.S. - If you like this one, go watch Hard Candy. No gayness, but it gets a 10 from me whereas this gets a 9, if that's any indication.
*The entire movie is about greed, actually, and I would have liked just a little more of a nudge from the script to point that out.
Pictured above are Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston). They abduct Alice (Gemma Arterton) and handcuff her to a bed, planning to get a two million dollar ransom. To say any more would ruin a fucking compelling plot.
So, instead, I'll talk about the gay. I'm not exaggerating when I say this film is exactly the kind of gay entertainment I've been waiting for. Without the surprise Vic/Danny romantic involvement, there would be no movie. It's not thrown in there to be edgy, or to please the ladies in the audience by having two hotties make out (Danny's a cutie, but Vic is an everyman), the completely fucked up love between these men is 100% central to the plot. They're also villains, not because they're gay, but because of love (from Vic) and greed (from Danny).* When villains aren't gay just to demonize a minority, and when gays can be honest-to-god villains without someone getting huffy that homosexuals are painted as anything other than saints who go clubbing, that is real equality. This movie does it, and it does it so so very, very well.
Highly recommended if you like your gayness dark, complicated, and a little psycho. No worries for the squeamish, the movie isn't about blood and gore.
Movie Rating: 9/10
Canon Gayness Scale: 8/10 (10 being full on man-sex)
P.S. - If you like this one, go watch Hard Candy. No gayness, but it gets a 10 from me whereas this gets a 9, if that's any indication.
*The entire movie is about greed, actually, and I would have liked just a little more of a nudge from the script to point that out.