Filmmaker Sebastián Silva directs himself in a movie about lying online and lying in real life. Our Rotting in the Sun review:
Sebastián Silva wants to kill himself. Jordan Firstman wants to team up with Sebastián on his nascent television project. The parade of horny men at the gay nude beach resort where Sebastián and Jordan meet wants a good time from both, slinging their prominently framed dicks around in greeting, promising non-stop public dalliances supplemented with a ketamine diet.
The meet-cute, in this case more of a meet-ugly, between Silva and Firstman takes place during a brush with death: Firstman, caught in a riptide and in mortal peril, nearly drowns, but Silva saves him; having, Silva’s 2013 cringe comedy, Firstman interprets the rescue as kismet.
That element of danger is real, but it doesn’t come from Firstman. There’s an air of Hitchcockian menace hanging over the plot, even if’s thriller side is secondary to the way Silva bleeds performative stances online with performative stances in the flesh.
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