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List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $23.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Surround Sound • Color • Subtitled • Widescreen In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 06 November, 2007 |
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| Eternal Summer opens with its protagonist Jonathan Kang wondering how his life would have been different if he had not been paired up with Shane Yu in elementary school. Unlike himself when he was an elementary school student, Shane was constantly getting in trouble with his teachers pulling such stunts as cutting the hair of a transfer student during her first day of class. In order to make Shane behave, the school counselor and Jonathan's teacher asks him to become friends with Shane in order for him to have a good influence on the rowdy boy. However, they obviously did not know how deep of a friendship the two boys would eventually develop.
Warp several years later when the two boys are in high school. Jonathan is still quiet and studious and Shane is still loud, but his great ability in sports makes him popular with others. Although the two are still quite different personality wise, they are still close friends. Jonathan even rides on the back of Shane's bike to school each day. However, their little insulated world is given a jolt when a girl named Carrie comes from Hong Kong to live with her mom in Taiwan. Obviously interested in Jonathan, she attempts to seduce the boy when the two go on an outing to Taipei. However, Jonathan rejects her and slowly his homosexual feelings for Shane are revealed. Carrie is hurt at first, but she soon begins warming up to Shane, and the true drama begins. Like Zero Chou's film Spider Lilies which deals with lesbianism, Chen's Eternal Summer offers the viewer a sympathetic look at a young man who is not only coming to terms with his sexuality, but also struggling with a deep love that he believes to be only one-sided. At first it seems that the character of Carrie is going to nothing more than a barrier between Jonathan and Shane, but Chen handles her character well and she does not fall into an easily categorized stereotype. |
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