Swingin' (2020)

Swing and a Miss

Overall: there was a good idea a the core, how a boy might struggle at school with two gay dads, but it had a poor execution

Content Warnings: held against will, looked up skirt - pulled down pants, pervy guy

What I Liked
- the trumpet playing
- the boy said that they should apologize to the girl

Room For Improvement
- the trumpet player was more immature than the child! Who just leaves their child at a dock? Pulling down his pants was terrible. The dad felt stereotypical and I wish they would haven't gone that direction. He could have worn lipstick/nails and been an awesome parent of a child who is struggling at school due to bullying. Instead they made him look immature and silly.
- the first sexual assault to that girl was bad but then they threw in another attempted one??? To show that the boy was now a hero? It was an odd way to show character development.

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If I had my eyes closed and the movie started, I would have guessed from the great trumpet music that Jeffrey (1995 American gay movie - we have it here) is starting. However, the story of this short story is equally rambling to the point of craziness, even though it is otherwise completely different in plot, origin and date of creation. However, one of the fathers seemed too warm to the creators (Steven Jiang, who also played the main role of a teacher in HIStory2: Right or Wrong) to add more "comedy" (femininity, lace, etc.), but on the other hand, it can " to deceive" the audience that cohabiting men are all so "weird". But the film moved to the heights for me thanks to the great music /trumpet, piano/.

Kdybych měl zavřené oči a film začal, tipoval bych podle skvělé hudby trubky, že začíná Jeffrey (americký gay film z r. 1995 - máme jej zde). Ovšem stejná rozšafnost až potrhlost se nese i v příběhu tohoto kraťasu, i když jinak je zcela odlišný dějem, původem i datem vzniku. Akorát se mi zdál jeden z tatínků příliš tvůrci přiteplalý (Steven Jiang, který hrál i hlavní roli učitele v HIStory2: Right or Wrong), aby to dodalo větší "komediálnosti" (zženštilost, kraječky atd.), ale na druhé straně to může "klamat" diváctvo, že muži, kteří žijí ve společném svazku jsou všichni tací "divní". Film se ale posunul u mě do výšin díky skvělé hudbě /trubka, klavír/.

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