"A movie should present its characters with a problem and then watch them solve it, not without difficulty. So says an old and reliable screenplay formula. Countless movies have been made about a boy and a girl who have a problem and after difficulties they solve it by sleeping with each other. Now we have a movie about two homosexuals that follows the same reliable convention."
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