Review of Locked Up

Locked Up (2004)
8/10
Powerful, yet tender
20 August 2015
Somewhat twelve years after releasing, the freshness of this film can be considered one more proof of the theory that independent gay cinema has much to offer to Hollywood. This is one more example of technical development of the language of cinema, and doesn't fear to show sex scenes in a climate of sensible love. Rough sex is adequate to the ambiance of the film: rudeness, fear, anger, drugs. The sex scenes are hardly inadequate to this world, where men do sex with other man as a way of passing time, frequently in rude ways The interpretations are sore. Sauf Charlie Schmutt, actors hardly can deliver their lines. Schmutt chooses an acting way that valorizes his curly angel body, and gets easily the audience sympathy. In the end, it's a simple low budget film that shows sex is so much, or even more, important than violence in prisons, often coming combined. Hollywood is good at showing violence, but lacks the sex.
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