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Fernando O Boring, boring, boring Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/09/24 Full Review Audience Member If you're looking for a 90's LGBT themed movie, this is a good pick. It highlights the difficulty of being gay in this time frame. It also displays the sometimes difficult situations that people find themselves in, such as falling in love with someone who is incompatible, and not being able to make things work. There are two violent scenes in the movie where people get hurt and even beyond, displaying both characters serious shortcomings, giving them both serious flaws, one being obviously more serious than the other. I won't ruin the film, but the ending did come as a bit of a shock. It leaves the viewer to imagine several scenarios: did he do it because he felt hopeless after losing someone he intended to be in a relationship with and with whom committed a violent act on him in an act of rage, or did he do it because he's actually a terrible person? I guess one would say he is a terrible person regardless, but it does leave more to the imagination as the movie doesn't present a solution to the crisis it displays. The drawbacks of this film include some scenes that are long-winded without real dialogue, mostly in the beginning where Lincoln interacts with his family and peers. But on the whole, it is a good indy film that has an avant garde feel for a 90's flick. Films like this simply were rare in the 90's, even though it was much improved from the era before it. Its a classic for that reason. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Although Sachs cannot sustain the cinematic promise of The Delta's early sequences, his moral seriousness and technical finesse merit attention. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member "The Delta" refers to the low land where a river spills into smaller rivers. When a poor Vietnamese immigrant and a white suburban sexually-confused boy take a boat for a ride, we don't know what to expect. I wish the movie had stayed focused on the relationship of the two but it's too busy making the gay Vietnamese into a psychopath. As played by Thang Chan, with a charming accent, the character deserves better. Shayne Gray as the white boy is cute but his character is undeveloped. The narrative is not fully realized and the movie leaves you with more questions. It's a low budget film with sloppy editing and directing. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Thinks it is clever, but it really isn't. Long, boring scenes of teenagers out of parties put me to sleep for a brief minute or two. Lincoln's struggles with his identity as a gay or straight man is well played out, but another gay character, Minh (African-American and Vietnamese) is so obviously displaced from society that the sympathy for him becomes sickening. The ending of the movie is fun to discuss, but this movie is very pretentious. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member When you like movies with a lot of action, this is not your movie. This story takes you slowly into the lives of some people living in The Delta. It takes it's time. And I like it. An observation of people in confusing social circumstances. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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