Rob Agulia

This film unfortunately seems to be geared to adolescents coming out of the closet. Everything about it is so “Facebook” in its manufactured emotions and lovey-dovey scenes of gay men doing all the romantic things that are supposed to mimic the straight world’s rites-of-passage such as getting engaged in restaurants, etc. I assume Dan Levy, being gay, knows both the downsides as well as the upsides to being gay in the 21st Century in the Western World, but he didn’t portray any of them. I think he was too devoted to trying to make all his puppy dog facial features to really hone in on life, and death, emotions that come within the real world. Also, as a liberal gay man, I even find such forced political correctness ( wow: a Black Irish woman, who’d have thought?) to be so contrived as to make real political correctness seem backwards. I kept thinking of something strange: a rhinoceros is a completely beautiful animal & should be admired as such, without adding rainbow colouring to its horn or red lipstick on it. Dan Levy unfortunately makes the beauty of normal gay life “Disney-esque” and fake with his garish ornamentations.