And he didn’t disappoint – in every scene he was in, you just can’t help staring and smiling at him. The way he walked, talked, sat, even just stood in one corner – he was so gay!  From the very first scene when he slowly walked away from a prison fight and took refuge in the library, you knew he was a delicate gay. And a very good-looking gay at that. I loved it when he said, “you know what they do to blond, blue-eyed queers out there” or something to that effect, when Jim asked him why he never joined the field games.

I particularly can’t get over his “bedscene” with Jim Carrey – where he cried his heart out on Jim’s tear-stained shirt while Jim strokes his hair and hugs him on their cell bed. It was so perfect, every sob and rack of his body in tune with what I would imagine a gay to be doing at those moments. 

Story wise, this movie could not have picked a more original storyline. Parts of its plot seem so far-fetched that they almost seem the product of a hyper-imaginative mind, but then, we have assurances that this story happened in real life. And while Jim and Ewan may not be front runners in my mind as a gay couple (but then, Heath and Jake weren’t too), they couldn’t have done it better.

I loved this movie so much that I was actually surprised that I haven’t seen it in any box office reports in recent times – then I discovered that this gem of an indie film could not get a distributor in the US for its gay content. Well, I don’t know about that, all I know is that this movie is infinitely better than most the flicks Hollywood has been churning out lately.

This is a movie I would highly recommended – even if the story is not to your taste, Jim and Ewan’s antics will surely elicit laughter from you.