Having just re-watched this to give it a second chance I have to say I still hate it!
It could have been amazing and there were some great scenes, sadly these wasn't enough of them and the characters were not rounded out much beyond the stereotypical. The whole thing just seemed to suffer from a lack of thought and planning, not helped by having a seemingly bi-polar main character who one minute is shy, quiet and nervous then suddenly possesses the biggest pair of balls knows to man in how he stands up to people.
The film sets out to portray the Caribbean as region occupied mainly by bigots who use religion to rabble rouse a culture of hate and fear to drive home their homophobic message. This is fair enough, but if that is the case, why make the movie at all if you are going to kill off the main character just as the ending is pointing towards something brighter and more hopeful. I would have given it 5 or 6 out of 10 were it not for that one moment. It just made the rest of the movie completely pointless.
I really don't understand why so many gay movies have to end with either a death, tragedy or the main protagonists going their separate ways. I know that not every LGBT movie can end on a positive, I totally get that but what I don't get is why so few do? What is the problem that gay film makers have that every once in a while they can't give the viewer a reason to be happy and to give them that positive ending. Are they incapable? It's got to be good for the mental health in a world where being gay can sometimes be hard enough.
Instead we are repeatedly subjected to this!
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