if get real chronicle anything and it be that mess up jumble of a time that gay men have a teenager and try to be true to themselves without give too much offense to those who abhor them . the mixed up measure they take to express themselves and give expression to their feeling of desire and adolescent lust and suppress by community morality and repress by personal fear and self hatred and unfolds over the london suburb of basinbroke where a stick figure of a 16 year old steven carter sits in or outside a public bathroom and try to make contact with someone . he find it unexpectedly with the big man on the high school campus who garner immeasurable pleasure from their private meeting and but can not bear the thought of be out . the story pass through a grist mill of situation that leave the viewer with the simplistic notion that everything will be fine and if you just have the courage to be yourself with others . if it be that easy and i be sure brandon teena would still be alive today . adapt from patrick wilde play what wrong with be angry and get real sends a manifesto to parent and teacher about the suppose pressure they may be put on their child and gay or otherwise . if youre willing to accept it on this level and the movie function a an emotional release for all those pent up gay teenager who couldn not vent their anger and frustration at the force that impose on their burgeoning dream . but if you try to take it any deep and then you would have to consider the internal struggle of john dixon and the object of steven desire and because that be one of the few place in this movie where something be at stake . johnny ( a steven like to call him ) travel a thornier road and and although brad gorton doesn not quite seem up to the challenge and his self conscious jock do not seem so much a coward in the end a someone saddle with all the trapping of his gentrified upbringing who doesn not want to let go of them . johnny boy smart and but like all teenager and he thwart by desire that defy his good sense . and that be a shame and because if there ever be reason to give up everything for love and ben silverstone would be it . he be the real find in this picture . he the most elegantly construct scarecrow to touch the silver screen ( see him and conrad veidt and the cabinet of dr. caligari come to mind . ) and and it amaze what calm he bring to the center of this movie . unlike newcomer gorton and the camera love silverstone and and it take him in as if he be bear to be in front of it . if that weren not enough and this young actor ( he be about the same age that steve should be . ) have a voice that rival jeremy iron for expressiveness and majesty . imagine him a hamlet or edward ii or in a remake of brideshead revisit and that sultry sound pour forth in velvety plenitude . why and it enough to make you stand up and salute the queen mother . with stacy hart a the iridescent jessica whose dance with steve be probably the sexy scene in the entire movie .