This is a valiant attempt to emulate a foreign film. Frankly, Americans just don't have the depth or the acting ability to do just that. We are better at action, special effects and surface level comedy. We cannot divorce ourselves from pretty people! We just will not settle for actors who can act but may not look like models. We keep creating superficial worlds with lame dialogue about superficial people living in wealthy environs and lush surroundings. We seem to feel ordinary people are boring and not worth the effort. One more gay film about Los Angeles and its many phonies trying to 'feel' like they are really alive is just a bit much.

The cinematography is very nice. All the principals look healthy and tan and freely drop their trousers giving the audience the expected thrills. There are lots of lengthy pauses suggesting French and Scandinavian films which never translates in American movies. It's just a cinematic yawn. In the end, we are left with stereotypes. Troy leaves with the usual single tear rolling down one cheek (I'm sure it had to be done with an eyedropper.)looking not nearly as believable as Lana Turner in her worst Ross Hunter productions. Fade out, curtain. We don't really care what happens to any of these people unless we are 13 years old and have enormous crushes. What is the point of Troy anyway? He's just a case of arrested development. If you go to bars you see them by the dozens, next stop--AA.