4 Moons

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robert p While not a great movie, still it's good enough for *4* stars Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Muy buena película, tiene tramas que te envuelven de principio a fin, para mí destaco más la historia de Fito y Leo❤️ Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Perfect presentation of slice-of-life in gay community through four different stories with main character from different age range, showing how the struggle, desire, urge, and experience can add layer and depth into the conflict each character has. Visually, it's just average, but I personally forever in love with the representation through well-developed actors and their environments. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Is a good movie with interesting stories. It could have been better but for a compilation of short stories that cover kids, young adults and elders alike it was a very beautiful movie. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Describing four different cases about how people face the discovery of their sexuality, "Cuatro Lunas" is a beautiful metaphor of life in its different facets, managing both subtlety and firmness in a poetic and precise way. In spite of the multiple clichés that it presents, the story has great structure and rhythm, noting the ability of Tovar Velarde to approach the subject of homosexuality in Mexico during the XXI century, removing the stereotypes that are commonly attributed to it. 76/100 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I found the relationship between the "Full Moon" couple, Andrés and Hugo, to be the most frustrating, in that you're shouting at the screen for Andrés to leave Hugo the whole time. Hugo's constant struggle of wanting his cake and eating it too is so realistically done that for a brief moment you actually believe his lies of not seeing his other guy. By the end you're finally cheering that Andrés has gotten the strength to leave and live for himself and his happiness rather than Hugo. With that being said it was my favorite story arch, it's the cynicism in me. The end scene where they pan from Hugo placing wacky magnets on an empty fridge in his apartment, something he had previously fought with Andrés over because he found it embarrassing, to Andrés in his own apartment happy and painting his walls with a new dog (which I can admit is cheese filled) just makes me so happy. In the end Hugo didn't get either person he wanted. Frito and Leo, "Waxing Moon" was cute I admit but the least interesting. It follows the cliche of the two previously heterosexual guys who fall for one another and one of them, Leo, eventually pushes himself away from Frito because he is scared of what his family and everyone will think. Fruit of course wants to be open about who he is and they eventually, for a short period, split up. Of course, Leo realizes how irrational he was and how much he misses Leo and they make up. What is the most aggrevating thing about their ending is that Leo never really says that he's going to come out and openly be with Frito. All he basically told Frito was that he didn't want to be without him, not that he'd make any kind of effort to bring their relationship to the public. The relationship between the elderly, poet Joaquín and young, prostitute Gilberto seemed the most odd to me. I didn't quiet understand what Joaquín's intentions were. Is he gay but won't come out because he has this family that he's put his whole life into or is he expressing this inner need to live and feel something because he's dying. The part at the end where Joaquín asks Gilberto to come to his homage ceremony at the collage is the most confusing because there is no reason for him to be there. Gilberto is selling himself so that he can go across the boarder to his wife and child. The whole time there is a build up to Joaquín getting enough money to buy time with Gilberto and you almost thing that it's going to be this huge ordeal and something amazing but it falls kind of flat. May that was the point but it was lost on me. To me, this was the weakest story arch of the four. Mauricio, the 11 year old, was a story we can all on some love relate to. His story is a bit of a stressful one because you know he's going to be bullied after his cousin is shocked by his advances and proceeds to tell all the kids at school that he's gay. You can see the inner turmoil on Mauricio's face the whole time as he tries to deal with this very real issue on his own. After a fight between Mauricio, his cousin, and few other bullies in school, the secret is completely out on the table for all of the parents and principal to hear. It's awful seeing a young boy depressed and unable to get up from bed because he is embarrassed and believes his parents hate him. The movie even successfully makes you believe that the father leaves because of how angry he is about his gay son. I found this one to be as equally grounded in reality as the "Full Moon" arch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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