However, the two boys then kiss out of the blue and have sex – while there’s a bit of flirtation leading up to this, I still don’t really feel any sexual chemistry in this scene before that point. On Tour by Kurt Vile is played in this scene and it works perfectly with the atmosphere. It’s a nice scene, seeing two friends being their true selves – Martin is liberated from his father and Tomaz can now be open about himself and his sexuality. Tomaz flirts with Martin a little bit, and Martin asks Tomaz some questions about being gay and his boyfriend. On the plot twist: The two boys are drinking on the sofa and listening to music. To me this was a film about two old friends finding themselves and rebuilding a faded friendship – and it should have been left as that. I give my thoughts on this plot twist in the ‘Other observations’ section below, but I feel like it slightly takes away from the message of the film. It feels like it came a little bit out of nowhere and I don’t particularly think it was foreshadowed. However, there’s a plot twist near the end which I didn’t see coming. Until the final fifteen minutes I very much thought this film was about Tomas working out how to come out to his old friend, and Martin gaining freedom from his controlling father. This scene captures well how it can feel coming out, and how even when a friend accepts you, you can still feel a bit ashamed. Tomaz looks guilty and can’t hold eye contact – he’d so wanted to come out but didn’t know how. It’s a genuine scene of a friend telling another friend that he can be himself and that he doesn’t have to hide anything. Martin reassures him it’s cool and that he could’ve told him earlier. They sit and Martin asks Tomaz about his boyfriend, even though Tomaz hadn’t told him yet or said that he was gay. There’s a nice scene where Tomaz and Martin go for a walk. Tomaz is an interesting character, he’s quiet and likes drawing (in his book and also on the walls of toilet cubicles), but he’s also a bit more out there than Martin – in a game of truth or dare Tomaz gets his hair dyed blue. He also watches Martin hook up with one of the other girls. Tomaz ends up kissing one of the girls at the party but gets drunk so that he doesn’t have to do anything further with her. In one sequence, the two boys host a house party with friends and when Martin seems more interested in the girls, Tomaz seems a bit jealous. We learn that he has a partner back home and there are hints that Tomaz may have, or have previously had, feelings for Martin. Tomaz on the other hand is gay and is struggling to work out how to tell his old friend. He realises that he has other people around him who do not make him afraid to go to the beach, and he learns to no longer fear his father as he has other family now. Martin starts to resent his father for causing this disconnect and he starts to free himself from his father’s control by deciding not to deliver the document. Martin begins to feel guilt for this separation, even though it was his father’s fault and not his own. His father is alienated from the rest of the wider family, who Martin has been sent to collect the documents from. Martin’s father was furious at him and when they got home, he beat him as punishment. When he was a child he got lost at the beach and had to be looked after by some lifeguards. We learn that Martin is dominated by his father, as Martin tells a story of why he is uncomfortable around the beach. We are led to believe that the boys don’t see that much of each other anymore, and there’s a tension between them, as if they used to be much closer, but now they don’t know each other so well. Seashore | Beira-Mar, follows old friends Martin and Tomaz as they travel to collect some family documents for Martin’s father, following the death of Martin’s granddad. Saying this though, there is a plot twist towards the end of the film which breaks the flow and seems rather disconnected from the rest of the film – and I feel like this lets the film down. However, the film has a nice aesthetic and some nice themes do develop throughout as the two main characters, Martin and Tomaz go through individual journeys, and there’s some good cinematography and music. It’s largely slow-paced, unfocused and with a plot that is at times uninteresting. I’m very conflicted by this Brazilian film, written and directed by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon. Enclosed during the weekend in a small coastal town in the winter, the two young men seek to reconnect their old friendship and end up making new discoveries. In a trip to the coast of Southern Brazil, old friends Martin ( Mateus Almada) and Tomaz ( Maurício José Barcellos) are united in the task that Martin has seek documents requested by his father, which are with relatives who reside on the coast.
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