Jongens (Boys)

Jongens (Boys)

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, I just watched a very sweet gay love movie (in Dutch, with subtitles, please), and it's called Jongens (Boys). Since I really liked this movie, I told myself : "Hey, why not talk about this movie on my blog ?"

First of all, I should have told you that one of my distractions at the moment is to watch short gay love movies on YouTube ? And I was quite surprised to see a 7.6 (as of now) ranking on IMDB, so I decided to watch it, out of curiosity.

Man, I wasn't disappointed at all. So, this is a Dutch movie starring Sieg, a 15-year-old athlete working for a competition in a rally with three other boys. One of them is Marc and since they have loads of practice to do, they see each other a lot. Well, you guess what happens in this little groupe of friends : they go closer to each other, and such and such.

(I'm trying not to include spoiler here but that's going to be hard...)

Anyways, this is the discovery of Sieg's sexuality, the fact that he's not that comfortable with girls and that he prefers boys anyway... Loads of angst and sexual tension ensue, but at the very least (spoiler here) : the end is happy.

This won't be a long review, I just wanted to tell you that it's a very sweet movie, that isn't that long (78 minutes, so just a little bit more than an hour), and that I'd recommend to anyone tired of the cliché hetero couple in a little romance we see way too much.

This little story of denial, bargain, and final acceptance of Sieg's identity is something very beautiful, and seeing Marc (who's probably more experienced on the matter) trying to make Sieg understand that in the end, he should accept himself as who he is instead of  trying to hide the truth with that "girlfriend" Jessica, is something I definitely can understand.

Outside of this little cliché "I am not gay-WTF you have a girlfriend let's break up-But actually she isn't my girlfriend you're my only love-Oh yes let's reunite and love forever", the movie was very accurate, sweet and lovely, just like it should be.

I'd give it an 8/10 though, definitely recommend, whether you're in the LGBTQ+ community or not. It's very adorable and everyone should watch it.

Okay, that's it for today ! I really hope you enjoyed this post and I'll see you very soon with a new one !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !