Gay film hawaii
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Hawaii is a quiet film about sexual longing between two men from different socio-economic backgrounds. Despite the title, it’s set in rural Argentina.
If you don’t enjoy quiet, artsy movies, Hawaii is not for you. Martín (Mateo Chiarino) is young man who finds himself homeless after his grandmother, who he was living with, passes away. He squats behind an abandoned building and wanders around looking for odd jobs.
On his find for money, Martín runs into Eugenio (Manuel Vignau) and asks if he needs someone to accomplish some work around the house. Eugenio explains that he’s only watching the house for his aunt and uncle but will ask them if they have any work they want done. They discuss, then Martín remembers that they grew up together. Eugenio only vaguely recalls Martín and tells him to come back the next day.
Martín returns the following day and is put to work. They begin talking about the past and find that they have some distributed memories. One of these memories is of killing a cat, which I found disturbing. There are other stories that characterize their childhood differences in specific ways, so I was able to attention on those. And wh
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Thinking about Hawaii and what the film means continues around the world, and I've recieved one very interesting comment on how the use of the colours red and shadowy could be seen as symbolic; where black represents power and red submission. Also, on imdb there is a comment (from anyone here?) which seemed very enlightening to me, concerning the pineapple. I didn't know this about pineapples, so for me this made the symbolism of the fruit that much clearer.
Pineapple tree’s will only produce one pineapple, then will die, the pineapple in the picture shows a tree growing two which is very special. I believe Martin was just talking about the slides, and happens to mention the two pineapples. Eugenio then remembers Martins comment on the two pineapples, Symbolic in the fact that it is rare to see two pineapples growing on the same tree, a couple, growing together side by side. These two guys grew together when they were younger, both remembering parts of their youth, while spending more and more time with each other, e.g Cat Stoning, Shooting, Swimming etc. They then happen to be reunited, By the death of Martins Grandmother, and the fact he had nowhere to stay, an
MANUEL VIGNAU AND MATEO CHIARINO IN HAWAII
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Poor male lover guys. They don't perceive what they are. They don't know what the other guy is. So it goes anyway for Eugenio (Mateo Chiarino), a writer who's housesitting for the summer at his uncle's place some distance from Buenos Aires. Actually he very well knows he's gay; he just doesn't seem to long for to let on in this pretty-looking, low-keyed motion picture. He takes in Martín (Manuel Vignau, who starred in Berger's debut main attraction Plan B), an attractive young man, a rare years younger, whom, it turns out, he used to play with (boyishly, innocently) when they were kids. Now Martín, who's working class, is firm up, having grown up in Uraguay (explaining the actor's accent), and made homeless by recent events, though he's as tight-lipped as Eugenio, and hides at first that he's sleeping out in the woods. Martín is soon doing yard and maintenance work, caring for the pool, and sleeping in the wood shed while the two close-mouthed hunks circle around each other, often shirtless, sharing meals and recollections of childhood. Eugenio is definitely eyeing Martín, but not sure which way Martín swings. A gay niche film? You bet. That's Mar
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