Just Say Love

3/27/2022

“Guy” (Matthew Jaeger) is sitting on a park bench contemplating Plato when he is approached by the rather uncouth builder “Doug” (Robert Mammana) who has heard that this is a place to go for some easy sex. Initially, the former is uninterested but a conversation sets things in motion that starts the ball rolling on a relationship that goes on to challenge both men’s perceptions of what is gay, straight, and of what love actually means. I rather liked this even though it is scripted to within an inch of it's life - “do you realise how dead that food is?”. The gloomily lit photography looks, much of the time, as though the entire thing has been shot on one camera and edited together using sellotape and lots of good will and it has a stolid presentation that takes some getting used to. All of