If there is a commonality between the short films besides the characters' orientation, their relative youth and privileged whiteness, the commonality might be their insecurity. Structurally, the interstitial parts preface or echo some aspect of the following, short film. That text often reveals a sexual secret, a secret where again desire and fear collide. Each short film is separated with an interstitial of text on screen. Writer-director Mark Bessenger has crafted ten, short films and has lined them up one after the other. This movie in many ways is looking at that damage, looking at it right in the face and addressing it, just as the characters will look directly into the camera and address it, meeting that crossroad where desire and fear collide. Just being homosexual has historically been tantamount to a crime, so admitting it, having to speak to it out loud, has been equal to admitting that you're a criminal, that you're wrong or that you're damaged in some way. For a few, it's guilt about something they are. Being that this movie is about ten, gay men giving testimonials, it's not just guilt about something they did. Inherent in a confession is the idea of guilt, feeling bad about some act you've committed.
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