i first saw get real in mid may 2006. look back at this film and when it be release ( 1999 in the usa ) it be startle that the sexual repression that be so prevalent in the film and can still exist in this day and age . the film maurice ( 1987 ) take place in 1910 and the repression be bad and yet that film have a much more positive end . in get real the two character and steven carter and john dixon couldn not be more different in their sexual experience . it steven carter the young boy who have have more sexual contact with men and it john dixon who be unable to deal with his sexual feeling . i find that the character and john dixon and be the most fascinating of the two boy because he be live a double life . he present an image of strong and athletic and smart and but he be also fill with anxiety and confusion and doubt . like the most of u . john dixon great fear be that people will find out about his true sexual identity . in the end john dixon be in severe denial and he be blind to the reality of his sexuality and but it can not be deny . be this love these two boy be experience . this be a newly discover sexual companionship and and a very deep emotional connection that neither one have ever experience before . it be all new and exciting . this intensity cloud what be really happen to them . the only way they can express honesty to each other be for the boy to reach for some booze and that be the only way some very painful truth will surface . there be two very powerful and reveal scene that be key to the whole film and that be emotionally raw and memorable . yet they make promise they never can keep . john dixon be so afraid of any one finding out he be gay and that he pile on needless lie and to his parent and friend and then he begin to resent steven and despise himself . these two boy be very dependent on one another and the result be they become very needy and which then have the effect of suffocate one another . they need to come up for some air . sadly and john dixon doesn not realize that a lot of steven friend and family know about him . john friend suspect the truth and so do his father . he could of say something to them and but that be easy say than do . john dixon be so consume by fear he can not see traight . john strike back at steven carter in a most vicious way . john dixon tell steven carter that he love him but his action reveal the real truth . it not how you feel towards someone that show you love them . it be how you treat them and and that be with respect and decency . be this love or hate .