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Release Date: 09 July, 2002 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $21.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: |
Eban and Charley Reviews
A very interesting , different gay film
I really enjoyed this film. It's about consentual love between two males. I know it is not everyones type of film. Some folks I know are upset about the age difference, like maybe 30 years ago the same was said about a black/white relationship. Charley is not forced into a relationship and is a 15 year old that makes up his own mind. It's a small indie film, character driven. That's nice after so many razzle dazzle special effects films. A welcome edition to my dvd collection.
Tries To Justify The Rape Of Children
Why am I so angry? The filmmakers demand the viewer feel overwhelming sympathy for a recitivist serial pedophile! Regardless the sexual orientation, Eban is a child rapist and my concern can only be for his victims. Unless he's actively seeking help with his disease, I refuse to attempt to offer empathy. Were he seeking help, I might be interested in his struggle to keep his "demons" from drawing his back into his pattern of destroying the lives of future adults, and maybe even be willing to consider all the "poor me" crap about what contributed to the sexual predator becoming so damaged that he has made a career of committing psychological murder of kids for no more than a "fix" for his addiction. Be clear, matters not whether it's man on boy, man on girl, or man on puppy for all I care, it's indefensible and this filmmaker's dragged out effort to support it is loathesome.
Sadly, that's no all that's wrong with this movie.
From the moment you press "play" on this title you should begin watching another movie on another TV -- like watching two football games at once. You will need something to do for the first five minutes while nothing happens -- nothing of any consequence whatever. They should have simply shown the old couple (Eban's parents) in their living room with the Christmas tree then had Eban open the door with his key and his mom say something like "glad you could pry yourself away from Seattle long enough to spend some time with your mother." while Eban carries his luggage in.
Too heavyhanded was the relationship between Charlie and his father. The attempt to make the joke about Seattle's addiction to coffee shops fell flat with this viewer because I felt that despite his few recent years there, back in this town where he was born and raised, he'd have known full well none of it's shops served up a latte.
YET, I wish more stories this long were told using so few characters. Unfortunately, most movies have gigantic budgets and scores of relatives of the investors, director, producers, and actors who MUST be given speaking roles regardless the lack of necessity. I will point out that the girlfriend of Charlie's dad character was entirely superfluous.
I immediately assumed Eban would target the deaf boy -- not PC, but that describes the lad -- only to see he actually eyed and raped the other boy. Clearly I don't have the instincts to be a "successful" predator, which is just fine with me.
I can't be the only viewer who wonders how the boy was able to walk up to Eban's first floor bedroom window when the house from outside didn't look wide or long enough except for its bedrooms to be upstairs, plus, I thought Eban took his bags upstairs. Alas, the flick was far too detestable for me to go back and see that scene again -- and it was within that boring opening of the movie anyway.
By the way, where were Eban's folks when he was in their house raping the child? Does his mom work? Old as his dad looks, is he not retired? Details like that should have been worked out rather than the long train and cab rides, which connected up with absolutely nothing.
On a POSITIVE note -- buy yourself a copy of COME UNDONE, an excellent movie about two young lads of the same age dealing with their humanity and sexuality. It's a gay-themed movie that reaches far beyond that in many ways, I think. I reject the notion that "Eban" is in that genre -- Eban is a "Rape the Child" GENRE flick and it would be no matter what the sexual organs of the two parties were.
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