Alf is a young man recently returned to a Catholic school in Mexico after a stay in America. He quickly finds himself back ith his friends who are very alpha male always competeing to get drunk and score with the ladies. However Alf is more interested in one of the other young men in the school, however the macho rules of the group he travels with makes it impossible for him to give into desire.
This is a very busy film with a kind of split personality. On one hand the film is an examination of someone struggling to find out who they are and what want from life, and at the same time the film kind of loses that focus as an certain event shifts the film into an examination of society and how it looks to present itself as right and upstanding but is really rotten behind the curtain. It's a split that kind of works against the film because the two halves feel not always connected.
The real problem with the film is that the film is so well made as to be perfectly polished. It is shiny and waxed to such a perfect degree that our ability to connect to it kind of bounce off the screen. This is a film with a lot to say but it it is too slick to grab on to it. The reason for that is that the film is so perfectly constructed in order to make it's point it didn't create real breathing characters. Yes we like them and we watch them but we don't connect to them as if they were people we know. They always remain characters in a movie going through movie things. It's frustrating because the material and cast is better than the package they are contain in.
I don't dislike the film, I just wish it was it was better
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