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‘Plainclothes’ Review: Russell Tovey And Tom Blyth Smolder In A Story Of Star-Crossed Lovers – Sundance Film Festival
‘Plainclothes’ review: Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth Smolder in a story of star-crossed lovers – Sundance Film Festival
Once the main players are established, though, and experimental flashes of harsh analog video become a more recognizable manifestation of its ugly-beautiful aesthetic, Plainclothes builds to a very satisfying conclusion, putting a torrid but meaningful gay love affair at the center of a universal coming-of-age story. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart is an unlikely reference point, not because Plainclothes is a genre film (although it shares a tiny bit of DNA with William Friedkin’s much more crudely articulated thriller Cruising) but because it deals with the disjunct between the mind’s needs and the body’s desires. More significantly, Lucas is in the middle of a breakup, on the grounds that he “might like guys”, and his tortured conscience becomes ever more visible in the workplace, where the chief refers to his victims as perverts, suggesting that casual gay sex is a gateway to serious psychopathic crimes.
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