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Dir. Gregg Araki
Rating: 3.3 | 0 User Reviews | Send to Friend
Though Gregg Araki’s film is only 85 minutes long, the event -- and it is an event -- is on par with watching paint dry and then putting on a second coat. The 1992 film opens us to a Gen X-er film critic, Jon (Craig Gilmore) in deep denial of his recently confirmed HIV positive status -- that is, until meeting a shirtless, leather jacket wearing, cop killing, sexual lightning bolt gay hustler named Luke (Mike Dytri), who also harbors the disease. Luke feels their short time on earth should be spent indulging in pure nihilism and takes Jon on a deadly West Coast roadtrip to prove it. I can’t fault Araki on the film’s cheap look or quality, as it is obviously a very low-budget affair -- do whatever you can with whatever it is you got, even if the cinematography (and acting) is horrific. But as far as plot-lines go, "hit the open road because I killed a couple of people" is mostly played, even in 1992 (post-1991's gag-me film, Thelma & Louise) and the whiny grunge era is in periphery.
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