Second Thought

In less than seven minutes, Second Thought brilliantly forces the audience to confront the reality of life altering consequences caused by chosen behaviors. The film dramatically depicts the polar opposite outcomes, between opportunities lost by shallow behavior, versus opportunities gained by earnest and profound behavior.

The storyline is set in the context of intimacy. It explores and reveals the emotional vacancy of hookup culture, the using and disposing of people as objects to satisfy an addiction to instant gratification, and the resulting inevitable failure to find and form any meaningful relationship to secure the most fundamentally essential human need for deeper and durable intimacy...

Versus...

The alternative possibility of achieving the most rewarding result of a lifetime, one of true happiness that only exists in the finding and nurturing of passionate romantic love between two humans sharing the ultimate connection of mind, body, and soul.

It was cute but this could have just been a music video. Take any LGBTQ coming of age song (or Taylor Swift song) and just throw it over the video and it might have worked better. It just seems like another attention seeking video from these 2 Internet D-List / TikTok celebrities looking for Klout & clicks and to grow their following. There wasn't really any acting going on especially if you have seen any of their "other content". Someone with a better camera and better lighting equipment followed them around making this video. The only reason it's getting 5 stars and not 3 is for the lighting and cinematography. It's playful and cute but looks like it belongs on a PG-13 only fans instead of imdb.

Shows what you can do nowadays with just a little money but a lot of thought. Love the mirroring of the actions of the two main actors as youngsters and oldies. To get the greatest audience I liked was done in tegard dialogue. The two main actors really looked like they were falling in love. I also think that Provincetown would love the use of the town as the backdrop. The big question the short brings up is the still problematic question of how gays can find love and the whole hookup situation. My favourite moment was the skateboard and bicycle scene. Can't wait to see what will be produced by this talented duo.

Two teenagers waking up, being part of same morning routine and leaving to pressumed cool location gay friendly.

A message on a social media web, a date, a hot night. And, maybe , nothing more.

But , only maybe.

The simplicity of story, the good looking young actors, the familiar scenes are, at the first sight, the basic virtues of this short film.

But the images about same young men after 30 years are the top of the cake. And the mixture of melancholia and good slice of hope are precious for precise definition of happiness near beloved one.

In short, just charming , scene by scene and, indeed, not only as homosexual story, admirable crafted.

This is a good first-effort film from these two. Not perfect, not awful. The stars here are Art and Chris, and whoever the old guys are.

Chris' implied desire for intimacy vs. Art's desire to get his rocks off is well-illustrated and poignant. A little more lead-up could have been helpful, and the photography could have been more crisp and less filmed-through-cheesecloth looking. For a low-budget effort, it's well done and I'm certain that they have learned a lot in self-producing this effort. Some vocalization might have helped define the plot better; maybe next film.

Generally speaking, I'm impressed and happy with the film. There's no major errors in visuals, plot or continuity. Both guys are handsome and act provocative, though they don't seem at all like 'strangers in the night', as they seem to be intended to be.

By the way, Bret LaBelle is nothing more than a 2-second cameo here, and he's only here because his condition for donating production funding for the flick was that he had to be in it. Fortunately, the film's editor edited him as much out of it as possible. He contributes zero to this film, or to any film, as far as I can tell. He's just a guy with dollars who wants to hang around these guys.

Kudos to Chris and Art for a good effort. Can't wait to watch what's coming next!