05.02.17
Not "Book of Mormon Musical" stuff, instead Garcia goes someway to acknowledge through this film the genuine early 21st century Mormon viewpoint which now has less of a vehement reaction to gay members of the LDS Church by both family and church hierarchy. Nevertheless, you know that choices will have to be made over the potentially incompatible direction the two twenty-year-olds explore and may take. The film also portrays numerous restrictions particularly placed on members of the LDS Church when serving missions. The doubts mount for the serving elders as they encounter more temptation than they have had opportunity to savor beforehand. But it is not lust but love that drives a particular choice opening up to them. And so the genre of this film is more romance than drama. Ferrucci and Farmer lead us into the soul of their gay love and silently ask of us are we genuine to our own sensitive feelings? A film that has me quietly cheering the main characters on in their own quest to find personal truth and the resultant life changing consequences. Hence a trilogy.