OK, this is not especially original. Two colleges friends, one is gay, the other is straight. We follow them on 4 peculiar days. Friendship becomes love. We've seen that a lot but the great chemistry of the comedians and the nice staging makes it often cute and lovable.
For the ones that love indie movies, romantic / coming out movies.
Keywords: lgbtgaygay interest
Plot summary
4 Days tells the story of two college friends who slowly realize they mean more to each other than either had initially realized. 4 Days joins Derek and Mark in the days leading up to Valentine's Day over the course of a few years- charting the blossoming of a friendship in to something much more enduring as time goes on - and challenging both to question who they thought they were and who they truly want to me. Painting a moving picture of how an abiding friendship can sometimes lead to love - and how we sometimes have to wrestle with our own demons to find their true self, 4 Days is achingly romantic and delicate.
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A cute love story
A waste of time and talent
Next to Broken Hearts Club, this has to be the phoniest 'gay' movie I have ever seen. It's bad enough that a lot of screen time is taken up by unnecessarily long scenes, such as periods of brooding silence, aerial shots of trees and buildings, and one of the lead characters serenading his girlfriend with an entire song — from start to finish. Intimate scenes between the two lead characters, which I think is pertinent to the theme and plot of the movie, are totally absent. The only 'kiss' we see is at the end, but it is shot from such a distance that the two guys could be checking each other for zits or dental plaque for all we can see. I don't know about you, but if two male actors cannot bring themselves to be explicitly intimate with one another in a gay-themed romance movie, even for the camera, it smacks of 'insincerity' or maybe even homophobia. Whatever, the assumptions some gay viewers may form over this reluctance leaves an ugly taste in the mouth. Are they afraid the Filipino stars may damage their 'macho' image? The Philippines, FYI, still has hang-ups about gay male sexuality, preferring to lump the many forms of gay men, from cisgender to transwomen to 'effeminate' gays under one label — the disparaging 'baklak'. It's the same in Malaysia, where similar categories of male sexuality are collectively known as 'pondan' or 'bapok', the Malay equivalent of 'fag' or 'queen'. Which is a shame really, seeing as how the Philippines are also to produce cutting-edge and risqué stuff like Antonio's Secret. Apart from the eye candy, this one just fails to break any new ground.
Is that all there is?
The movie is full of painfully slow shots of nothing interesting. Long drawn out aerial views of their school, several minutes of one squinting with the sun behind him, an artsy scene shot through a pool ladder of one of them doing so many laps in a pool that I felt my fingertips wrinkling. One of the characters has a long line of ex-girlfriends and all I can think of is how each of them is lucky to no longer be involved with him. The two main characters are not endearing enough to want the viewer to care about either of them. Then, just when you think that there might be something interesting about to happen, the closing titles come on.