2 Minutes Later

Director(s): Robert Gaston
Writer(s): Robert Gaston
Producer(s): Megan Mascena Gasper, Robert Gaston, Lindsay Grow, Farrel Lever
Starring: Michael Molina, Jessica Graham

When lesbian detective Abigail Marks teams up with gay guy Michael Dalmar to solve the disappearance of his twin, Kyle Dalmar, a famed portrait photographer, their investigation leads them into the Kyle's risqué world. With Michael posing as Kyle, the pair uncover assistants who have designs on their bosses, clients who have an interest in detectives, and killers who want them stopped. Navigating between identity and duplicity, Abigail and Michael discover that photos never lie, and two minutes can mean the difference between life and death.

Similar in plot to Blow-Up, this film takes an interesting stance on the relationship between reality and the captured in photography.I feel like this film is a great balance of gay sex, plot, and action. Sure there are aspects missing in the film, but when you have a super hot sex scene between two guys in an ultra modern red-lit bedroom, all those inconsistencies can be set aside. And fret not lesbians, you have a sex scene in this film too! Aside from the scantily clad men, this film offers more than just sex scenes. It provides a temporary step into a dark world where fantasy and reality are blurred. This has been a nice change from the almost senior theses that have been in my pile recently. Production quality was pretty high and the lighting at times was pretty experimental, which I love.

Amidst the dark world, there was time to develop a brief. . . and I mean brief romance that ends abruptly when one of them is shot. I liked the fact that the plot avoided any sort of in depth romantic development. It seems that gay flicks always have to involved romance. Seeing an underdeveloped and unspecified romantic interest, keeps the focus on the mission at hand: finding the killer who is out there. I definitely like this film and would watch it over again. Perhaps even go as far as to purchase it. With an ending that promises a sequel, I'm sure we'll see more of this queer duo that fights crime.