The Story of the Stone (2018)
After the death of Lin’s boyfriend Bao, Lin heads to Taipei and meets Josh who also arrived Taipei as a new waiter at the Stone bar in Red House. Slowly an new relationship sparks between Lin and Josh. However, the relationship turns complicated in Red house involving the clothing store owner Sean and the friend Lian. While Josh is in the hospital, a fire breaks out and almost destroys Red House. Lin searches for his boyfriend Josh’s sudden disappearance leads him discovers the rumor about Josh’s affair.
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Just perfect...
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
One of the things I liked about this movie is that it wasn't about exploring a particular issue and building a story about it, as is the case so often in LGBT+ movies, but it really just depicts almost 'a day in the life of' a particular segment of the gay world that genuinely exists. I could almost put a real life name to most of the characters in the movie, have had most of those conversations on a day-to-day basis over the years, and seen or experienced most of the events that happen. Moments were happy, others were sad, some were matter-of-fact, but most of it let me take an objective view of the world going on around me, that most of my hetero friends would be shocked to hear of about me. Issues manifested themselves naturally by just "people watching", as felt like real life for me. Don't get me wrong, this is not representative of the entire gay community, or even the majority, but it feels real for that certain segment it is very real. I am not Taiwanese but I was seeing it with Taiwanese gay friends and they agreed with me 100% on it. I can't wait to own it on DVD but that's going to take a few months since it doesnt even come out in Taiwan for a couple of months.