Luster
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Features
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2002
DVD Release : 09 December, 2003 |
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Do not waste your money
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My friend bought this film as part of a bunch of about 9 or 10, and as she visits me each week, we've been watching them. "Luster" was the last of the bunch and thank we waited. I had no expectations of this film and, indeed the acting overall was quite good, but that's the reason for the first star.
I found this film horribly confusing, slow and mediocre. Jackson, our protagonist, works in a independent record store selling all sorts of weird and wonderful music as well as the mainstream stuff and he tools around the aisles on a skateboard and yells at customers of whose music taste he doesn't approve.
He's woken up at an orgy, and decided he's in love with Billy, a participant, and tracks him down. Unfortunatly, Billy is basically the sex toy/slave of a musician and doesn't want anything to do with Jackson.
Enter Derek, a straight-laced gay guy who fell for Jackson at first sight and tells him so, but whom Jackson find too "boring."
Then add in a cousin from Iowa, Jed, who's tortured by Billy and handcuffed in the shower. Jackson asks his boss and best friend Sam if it's incest to have sex with your male cousin (duh!).
Of course, Jackson and Derek end up together, but not after Sam dies, presumably from suicide, because he "cares" too much about Jackson.
The trouble with this film really is that everything that I wanted to see happened off camera or in the dark. The film would have been grittier and harsher and more realistic if we'd *seen* the sex, the "lust", instead of just hearing noises.
I got sick of the "poetry" after the first ten minutes, which seemed to me to be kind of drunken philosophy rather than poetry.
And yet, I had to see this film out. I wanted to know what happened. And therein lies the reason for the other star.
For all its faults, this film is like a car crash - you want to look away, but you can't help watching. |
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