Beautiful Thing is a south london teenage queer boy coming of age flick, has some cool characters and acting, but a really hokey, sentimental, unbelievable ending. it's nice for gay teens that some cheezy movies like this exist, with happy endings, where no one is punished for their desire, but i think the director goes too far into la la land.
Beautiful Ohio...i didn't like this one but i don't wanna reveal too much about the plot in case you see it...in joaquin's words: "i don't know...fucked up and cynical. they dug themselves in making this stylized salingeresque 70's movie so they put this aidsploitation ending on it..." really, this ending is almost worse than Beautiful Thing, because the teens are punished for their desire.
so much for beauty...
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