Review of The Picture of Dorian Gray

I saw this film at the Toronto Gay and Lesbian film fest. It seems like such a mish-mash, like Cruel Intentions and Opposite of Attraction rolled together. In one scene, Dorian picks up a 13 year old hustler (who has more hair than me on his chest) and kills him. So I asked the director why. Really Dorian says like 17 times he is straight and would never sleep with a man, then has sex with approximately 100 men, why is he picking up a male hustler to begin with? And then he kills him for no reason, without saying a word. The director kind of laughed and asked the audience if anyone would explain it to me, like everyone in the theatre got it but me, which was lovely. The director also said he did not include nudity because he felt the new trend in gay films was showing nudity and there should be more stories. This to me sounds very gay republican circa 1985, saying "we're not all hairdressers". Then he casts the hottest guy I've ever seen as Dorian and talks about how he got an erection while watching the sex scenes in the movie. Perfect example of this whole film. Tries to make a point but gets mired down in the semantics.