Connor & Jayden

The film, Shakespeare In Love, seems to me have a rather implausible plot; but it does ask one of the great questions of the ages: can a play (or, in this case, a film) depict the real nature of Love. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (the actual play) does so, for the het world. Connor & Jayden does so for those of us who love as intensely but, in the world's eyes, somewhat differently. This film is more than a film, more than a play, definitely more than a farce for some more haters to bash: it is pure poetry. I grew up in a time and place in the US where such a relationship would have been impossible; and those of us adolescents who were "different" were not even given a language with which to articulate our differences, because, in that time and place, gay poetry---and, of course, definitely gay love poetry---was strictly and rabidly forbidden. Even when our high school AP Latin class (which I was unable to take by the time I got there) quiely covered up the well known fact that the great epic Poet was gay; and his Second Eclogue, singing the beauty and the agony of love between males, was suppressed from the Vergilian poetry studied in that course. I am glad that I have lived long enough to see Connor and Jayden on Youtube. I do not have sufficient knowledge of cinematics, or theatrical procedures, to judge the film on those standards. But I am a published, although very minor, poet, and I have been reading poetry for nearly half a century (it will be fifty years next April). So I have some credibility when I say that Connor & Jayden transcend the merely cinematic and ascend into the realm of pure poetry./ And, like Romeo and Juliet, it gives us the beautiful, and sometimes agonizing, truth of the exquisite emotional experience of real Love---Love that is Love that is Love, regardless of the gender. I am so glad I have lived long enough (having grown up in the seventies) to have seen this glorious justification of pure and unpretentious Love. See it once, then twice, and then again and again until you have lost count, and you will see things in the film, and in yourself, that you had not noticed on the first viewing. This film may not be very long, but it is definitely epic/

It sounds just good . Without be remarkable but only nice. Two teenagers , one - footbal player after an accident, star of high school and desired by girls, the other, pretty gay , good to cars and member of choir and cooking class.

An invitation from the first.

And ...the rest.

A delicate theme used in fair, proper way, with a fist of holes but working in reasonable manner. And the smart dose of realism of dialogue, gestures and decisions , the hesitations and the clash of so different worlds works surprising well.

So, Connor and Jayden. Their story.

I came upon this little gem one day on You Tube. It turned out to be such an emotional experience. What unfolded was a 'real' and genuine love story. It was told simply. However, it features two superb performances by the two leads, Christian and Ty. Their scenes are pure magic, coming across so uniquely. It was amazing to watch these two actors in their scenes together (basically the entire film) because their eyes tell the story. The way they look at each other, the way they gently touch each other, the way the one looks after the other - amazing work by all. There is talk that this film could become a series. I hope that happens because these two characters are so interesting and you want to know what will happen next in their lives together. A must watch.