(Video 18+) The Last Straight Man - Gã Dị Tính Cuối Cùng (USA, 2014, HD) [Cân Nhắc Trước Khi Xem]

Director: Mark Bessenger
Writer: Mark Bessenger
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration:110 min
Year: 2014
Stars: Mark Cirillo, Scott Sell, David Alanson Bradberry

MOVIE INFO

Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch up. Over the course of twelve years, we see four additional nights that depict how the two men grow and how their friendship changes.

Lewis là một anh chàng đồng tính kín tổ chức một buổi tiệc độc thân cho người bạn dị tính thân nhất, cũng là người anh đã thầm say mê, tên Cooper.  Sau một đêm say sưa ăn nằm với nhau, cả hai quyết định sẽ gặp nhau ở cùng phòng khách sạn này vào cùng đêm này mỗi năm để lại tình tự và kể nhau nghe chuyện của mỗi người.  Qua suốt một khoảng thời gian dài 12 năm, chúng ta thấy có thêm bốn đêm nữa khắc họa cho sự phát triển của hai anh chàng này và sự thay đổi của tình bạn giữa họ.  

First Look: Scott Sell Is The Last Straight Man

In The Last Straight Man, Scott Sell makes his feature film debut as Cooper, an engaged straight man who happens to find himself in bed with his best gay friend (Mark Cirillo) after a night of drinking. The story plays out like a gay One Day with the two characters meeting up in the same hotel room on the same day each year to catch up on each other's lives as well as explore their sexuality.

Check out Cooper, the man who finds himself in bed with Lewis over the next twelve years, in all his shirtless glory. (It's no wonder Lewis was willing to engage in these annual hook-ups).

Sadness, heartbreak & regret permeates “The Last Straight Man”by sinnerofcinema (United States) 

A very involving film from filmmaker Mark Bessenger, “The Last Man” standing is a therapeutic treat for anyone who’s been involved in truncated relationships. From the outset, both leading men are aware of their feelings for one another. Lewis (Mark Cirillo) is a closeted man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper (Scott Sell). However, they also realize their relationship is doomed due to to the marital circumstance surrounding Cooper. Emotions run high as both men agree to schedule a yearly one night stand reprieve from the grind of life. 

During this interlude they are both allowed to ask three intimate questions to be answered as truthfully and as authentically as possible. That opportunity allows both lead characters to exchange confessions on their true feelings in addition to giving each other the needed updates they crave just to see where their relationship stands. You would think that Lewis is unilaterally suffering through the bulk of heartache this unrequited love situation is generating. However, much suffering is to be had by Cooper who is torn between his family and his real belated love found for Lewis. This is the type of love that has grown so out of bounds, Cooper does not know how to deal with his emotions.

The beauty of this film lies in what is not said. Both Lewis and Cooper are deeply in love and their non verbal exchange speaks volumes. Their jokes fall flat whenever they come close to addressing their real feelings forcing one or both to change the subject.

“May your hair never fall, your dick always rise and your kids never call your brother-in-law daddy” is only one of the many witty dialogue shared by both Cooper and Lewis in what may seem at times to be funny banter translate into the men trying their hardest to convey their deepest sentiments. Their language, muddled by the restrictive code of silence men as a species have been known to observe in order to preserved the stereotypical macho front, is made to cover any an all possible honest feelings that may withdraw true emotion leading to a defensiveness that would expose and possibly lead to the outpouring of one’s authentic self.

In the form of a visual collage, the film skips to several progressive life events as both men evolve with the passage of time. As the men age w life experience, so does their love, affection and understanding of each other, which only seems to grow stronger with time, until Lewis realizes that at some point he has to be the better man and do the right thing for the benefit of Cooper’s family. Such selflessness is what makes Lewis a likable character. He’s always the reasonable one, where Cooper just wants to take their opportunity to let loose, and be who he really is. During their exchange of emotion in the bedroom, you can’t help but to feel the plight and internal struggle they both face, but it is Lewis, who most of the times seems to be relegated to make the difficult choices.

Production values are satisfactory for this digital production. However, at times misplaced music becomes distracting in some very key moments that demand full attention for the words being exchanged between the two leads. Performances are courageous and engaging as both actors flawlessly perform with due diligence even during scenes of pervasive nudity and very explicit sexual situations. Kudos to Mark Cirillo & Scott Sell who create admirable performances, and also for their bravery in choosing to stay true to the story with some very demanding and at times difficult moments both leading men share as they emote during their intimacy.

“The Last Straight Man” is a delight of a film, with an involved story that will leave you pondering on many underlying themes dealing with the way men express themselves and treat each other, and how not knowing to express true feelings can have long term and irreversible consequences on a life that should have been with the one.


Essential Gay Themed Films To Watch, The Last Straight Man

The 2014 film, The Last Straight Man, begins with a pair of best friends, Lewis and Cooper. As Cooper, played by Scott Sell, is about to tie the knot, Lewis (Mark Cirillo) prepares a bachelor weekend to celebrate his best friend’s upcoming nuptials. Lewis, however, is a closeted homosexual who has had a secret crush on Cooper for many years.

As the bachelor party unfolds, the men get drunk and celebrate the end of Cooper’s bachelorhood. However, Lewis and Cooper end up having drunken sex together. Lewis is delighted to discover that Cooper shares some of the same feelings for him, however, both realize it’s just too late for them. As a result, Lewis and Cooper make a promise to meet on the same night each year to catch up with each other and rekindle their passion, even if only for one night a year.

The film presents four of Lewis and Cooper’s annual meetings over the subsequent 12 years. With each meeting, the audience sees how the two men have changed, and bear witness to the growth of their friendship and relationship despite whatever may be happening for each of them during the other 364 days of the year.

Gay Themed Films, Critics

“Witty and intimate!”
— David Lamble, The Bay Area Reporter

“This comical, romantic, gay drama, ends up becoming a, viewing treat for those who love good cinema on a light, yet dramatic nature.”
— A Bucket of Corn

“With strong performances, a tight script and impressive direction, The Last Straight Man is one of those rare nuggets you find once in a while”
— Pip Ellwood, Entertainment Focus

  

  

MOVIE REVIEW: Last Straight Man
By The Gay UK, Feb 11 2015 04:00PM


But will he remain one, if Lewis gets his own way?


★★★★

TLA Releasing

It may be every gay man's dream to sleep with a straight man and it’s even hotter when he happens to be your best friend too. Closeted Lewis has always had a secret crush on his best friend Cooper but has never ever let on until the night before Cooper is about to marry his girlfriend and the two man have just drunk a wee too much at the stag party and their conversation turns to sex. All the other guys have left and as Lewis and Cooper start to clear up the hotel room where the party had been held, the talk gets dirty and personal. Well-endowed Lewis is keen and Cooper is curious and so the two end up in bed together after discovering that they both love blowjobs.

Next day Cooper gets up and goes and gets married and lives happily ever after with his wife. Until the same time next year that is, and the two men meet up back in the same hotel room and take up where they left off. This anniversary tryst becomes a annual date in their calendar and for one night a year Lewis, previously self-identified as bi-sexual, transitions into gay, and straight Cooper still refuses to accept that he is anything else even though he lets Lewis penetrate him as he insists that they never kiss.

What is clear though is over the next 12 years that they are both very much in love. With each other that is. One year Cooper tries to fight his feelings and refuses to show up for their date, claiming he doesn't want to put his marriage at risk, and then in a later year when he has not only overcome his resistance, is imploring Lewis to f**k him as hard as he can. It just so happens that he may have left it too late as perpetual bachelor Lewis finally has a boyfriend and is anxious not to do anything that may jeopardize his new relationship.

In this very likable boy-lit movie it is interesting that although this may have started out as Lewis's crush, it is in fact Cooper who is living out his fantasy. As their relationship develops it makes both men question their feelings and emotions and they learn that they cannot be easily defined in a conventional way as they accept their love for each other. It's helped with very convincing performances from the two handsome leads Scott Selland Mark Cirillo who look comfortable in and out of the clothes.

Be warned though before you get to the scenes of these two hunks thrashing around naked, you have to sit through the scary opening moments of the movie when the stag party stripper insists on pushing her mammoth naked breasts way to close to the camera. And I won't even tell you about her party trick where she can pick a coin up by her ... well, you can imagine.

This cute wee drama is entertaining and amusing, although trust me, Cooper really is anything but 'the last straight man'.

by Roger Walker-Dack