(It is touchingly connected to a loss their mothers suffer). Each boy’s relationship to his mother plays out this difficult need. Both Benny and Christopher pursue an emotional lack that psychologists have explained as essential to sexual desire. Edmund Donovan last appeared as Joe in Greater Clements at Lincoln Center, a performance which garnered him a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Obie Award.Previous theater. The film’s story of gay companionship means to resolve that dream as great passion and, indeed, exalted brotherhood. As kids, they both resemble Morrissey’s “All You Need Is Me” lyric: “I was a small fat child in a welfare house/ There was only one thing I ever dreamed about/Fate has just handed it to me/ Whoopee!”Īkron neglects the “dream” to which Morrissey alludes. King and O’Donnell skip past the spiritual depth of Benny and Christopher’s loneliness which is hinted at in the brief childhood opening. Gay cinema requires greater sensitivity than the political correctness that Akron provides. So much of watching gay cinema involves wish-fulfillment. Related | Theo and Hugo: Love Story of the Queer Year But while Akron is part of the underreported subculture of gay indie films-most of them direct-to-streaming (this one is distributed on DVD by Wolfe, the same company releasing the great Paris 05:59: Theo and Hugo)-I cannot pretend that King and O’Donnell fulfill this story’s emotional and spiritual potential. It would be unsporting to reveal the exact nature of what interferes with Benny and Christopher’s romantic happiness.
Their young adult love lives have already been set in motion by destiny. Benny and Christopher are haunted by their past innocent fate.
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But it takes a full half-hour for Akron to get past its trite, clichéd, stereotyped set-up and get back to that strange, star-crossed opening. The film avoids dramatic tension (no homophobic social obstacle to overcome) among Benny, Christopher and their super-tolerant, ethnically diverse siblings and schoolmates. At first, this aspect of Akron seems dreamlike-unreal, if you pardon my cynicism.
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