Title: How Can We Say These Are Only-Average?
Product review: Low art. Just because you feel something vague about your vague life, doesn't mean you can start the camera running and create satisfying art. (1) Death in Venice Beach, CA seems just a knock-off re-telling of Thomas Mann's novella without inspiration, just with carbon-copy-catting. (2) My Polish Waiter: the waiter is inarticulate and static, his infatuated would-be lover flies awry all around him, what does this become except a true portrait of--unreal romantic obsession? True but blah. (3) Miguel: this does show the character moving from clinging dependency, toward mature self-respect--but not artistically with foreshadowing, just at the end after unrelated plot. (4) The puppet-drama about Achilles and Patroclus was scenic, anyhow. See instead Boys Life I and II, even Boys Shorts, Boys Briefs? I was so unimpressed by Boys in Love (1) that I returned Boys in Love (2) to the rental store unwatched.....
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