(Video) Harry and Max - Harry và Max (USA, 2005, Eng. Sub.)

Year: 2004
Duration: 01:13:32
Directed by: Christopher Munch
Actors: Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams, Rain Phoenix and Katherine Ellis
Language: English
Country: USAAlso starring: Tom Gilroy, Justin Zachary, Michelle Phillips, Roni Deitz

Synopsis


Following up his critically acclaimed third film, 2001's The Sleepy Time Gal, filmmaker Christopher Munch helmed this dramedy about a pair of brothers who embark on a camping trip together. Harry (Bryce Johnson) is the eldest of the two, a 23-year-old former teen idol who has stopped off for the long-promised expedition while en route to a gig in Japan. Max (Cole Williams) is Harry's 16-year-old younger brother, a burgeoning pop star himself. As the siblings begin spending time together in seclusion, their cordialness erodes and strong feelings begin to come out, exposing old emotions that were never dealt with.

Also featuring performances by Michelle Phillips and Rain Phoenix, Harry and Max premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Tiếp theo bộ phim thứ ba được hoan nghênh nồng nhiệt (The Sleep Time Gal, 2001), nhà làm phim Christopher Munch thực hiện bộ phim hài chính kịch này về một cặp anh em khởi hành trên một cuộc hành trình cắm trại cùng nhau.  Harry (do diễn viên Bryce Johnson đóng) là người anh lớn, 23 tuổi, vốn là thần tượng của giới vị thành niên trước đây, đã dừng lại chuyến đi đến Nhật cho một buổi trình diễn nhạc, để đi cùng em mình trên chuyến đi mà anh đã hứa từ lâu.  Max (do diễn viên Cole Williams đóng) là người em 16 tuổi, bản thân cũng  là một ngôi sao nhạc pop đang tỏa sáng.  Khi hai anh em bắt đầu sống bên nhau ở nơi cô tịch, sự thân ái giữa họ biến tan và những cảm giác mạnh mẽ bắt đầu xuất hiện, phơi bày những xúc cảm cũ xưa mà họ đã cố lảng tránh từ bấy lâu nay.

Description:

The subject of the film are love and sex between two brothers. General history like any other love story of gay life: two guys, their lives, their quarrels. That's really what these guys are brothers who want each other emotionally and physically ... One of the main actress, called Rain Phoenix, also starred in a WIP movie Stranger Inside

Chủ đề của bộ phim là tình yêu và tình dục giữa hai anh em.

Review:

The plot on the edge - only one step away from incest. Or maybe not at all, incest, and clean, deep, multi-faceted love between brothers?

Well, one of them just gay. Youngest do not lose hope to seduce his older brother. But the second that? Like not gay, and bisexual, and heterosexual ...? Who is he?

In this respect, the film goes beyond the typical orientation. No matter what sex you are, what kind of orientation. Matter what you're human. And you're a good man, my brother, protector, and I want to be with you, I want to commend you all. Or you - my little brother, so cute, so naughty, so sexy. Well, how can I resist you?

 

  

BRYCE JOHNSON

  

Harry and Max Review

By Chris Barsanti on Tuesday 1st November 2005

Possibly the creepiest thing about Harry and Max - last year's Sundance scandal - is how resolutely normal it seems, once you get past the fact that it is a story about the tortured sexual relationship between two brothers. One would imagine that a film of this kind would take us from ominously shadowed flashbacks to increasingly lurid hints that finally culminate in a debauched final revelation of the brothers' secret. But instead, writer/director Christopher Münch (The Hours and Times) shoots the whole thing in bright sunlight, usually outdoors, mostly just Harry and Max talking amiably about nothing, as brothers will do, nothing seeming at all awry. Then the fondling begins, neither of them really wanting to go through with it, yet neither wanting to stop, either. It's a portrait of a thoroughly damaged relationship that tries never to point the finger, but forgets along the way to tell a compelling story.

Harry (Bryce Johnson) and Max (Cole Williams) obviously come from a family with issues, the least of which is their mother (Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas), who has made them into bubblegum pop icons. Harry is, at 23 years old, over the hill for a boy band superstar, and trying to figure out what to do during that risky post-band/pre-solo career/Justin Timberlake phase. Right now, he's a borderline alcoholic with the requisitely distant and bitchy girlfriend, slouching towards tabloid self-destruction. Sixteen-year-old Max is the new apple of their mother's eye, his career just getting underway, due more to his cherub-like good looks than any singing ability. Harry is (to say the least) baffled by his sexuality, a blurred sort of bisexual whose identity has long been confused by all the times that he and Max fooled around when they were much younger. Max, on the other hand, is fully out of the closet, a precociously self-satisfied teen who vacillates between wanting to solve all his brother's problems and wanting to stay far away.

Harry and Max begins with the brothers going on a camping trip, during which it becomes clear just how much Harry's mental state is deteriorating, which Max initially takes advantage of by trying to seduce him numerous times. Münch keeps the exact details of what they did together blurry, keeping it also unclear who initiated what, with Max fully admitting that he'd been attracted to Harry since he was only seven years old, but Harry (six years his senior) hardly able to claim that he'd been coerced or manipulated. The film is hardly coy about the incest that lies at its core - it's barely ten minutes in before Max is trying to give Harry a blowjob in their tent - but it seems strangely reticent about revealing much else about these characters. Although other people enter the film briefly - like their mother and Harry's ex-girlfriend Nikki (Rain Phoenix, so affectless she's almost invisible) whom Max is trying to convince to give Harry another chance before he completely self-destructs - they contribute nothing to our understanding of the central pair. And Münch's decision to make these boys into pop stars is only a distraction, as very little is ultimately made of it (except for a short coda narrated by Max that tries, and utterly fails, to give the film a humorous sendoff) as the film's negligible plot sputters and wheezes along.

What Münch has in Harry and Max is a pair of winning actors (Johnson especially, with his dead-on portrayal of an insecure celebrity's smarmy self-obsession) trying to illuminate a dark and deeply damaged relationship. But little comes of it all, besides some bad boy band tunes and unfortunate, tinny, therapy-laced dialogue about Harry's need to establish boundaries. Münch's courage to address a difficult subject can't in the end compensate for the fact that he just didn't have much to say about it in the end.

DVD extras include a director's commentary and a behind-the-scenes featurette.