夏威夷

晚上睡觉前看的，第二天一整天都没走出情绪。

（眼镜男什么的最有爱了）

第一：真实。
没有其他同志片那种干柴烈火，一夜激情，却多了几分生活的平淡。
慢慢的揣测一份感情，若即若离的亲密，让人欲罢不能的爱，想必每个人都经历过。由陌生到熟知，亲密却因为对感情的不相信，乃至对方一个不经意的怠慢而让恋人的玻璃心破碎带来的疏远，这个过程相比大多数人都经历过。
但感谢导演全家，破镜重圆，了了我的心愿。

第二：温暖。
能和自己爱的人在无人打扰的世外桃源独处，相信任何人都喜欢，尤其是渴望平等与光明正大恋爱的同志。本片圆了这第二个心愿。游游泳，吃吃饭，阳光下赛跑。没有刻意渲染的悲剧同志情节，让这断背之爱和很多唯美的异性恋故事无异。一切都是那么自然。

第三：超越。
地位金钱带来的自尊或自卑多多少少阻止了一些人追寻爱的脚步。屌丝追上白富美的故事太少，纯粹理想化的爱情越来越不太可能，但感谢夏威夷，圆了第三个心愿。

片尾一吻，一切都圆满了。

The Bottom Line
A house-sitter wants to get into the pants of the handsome handyman but that's easier said than done in this compelling drama.

The third feature of Argentinian director Marco Berger, a two-hander starring Manuel Vignau and Mateo Chiarino, is a solid home run.

The agony of unspoken same-sex desire is impressively prolonged to feature length in Hawaii, the third and by far most mature feature of Argentinian director Marco Berger.

Though it's a two-hander set primarily in one location for over 90 percent of its running time -- much like Berger’s debut, the low-budget, fluid sexuality-themed talkathon Plan B -- the 36-year-old filmmaker here displays a newfound finesse and confidence as a writer-director. The seemingly off-the-cuff conversations between a house-sitting hipster novelist and the handsome drifter he hires to do odd jobs around the house benefit from a razor-sharp sense of direction and purpose, illuminating character and queer yearning as well as class and other socio-political issues. The increasingly erotically charged atmosphere, which never seems to translate into any action, practically becomes an inverted coitus interruptus, where the actual doing of the deed would interrupt the joy and innocence of the games of almost-foreplay, which is prolonged to almost unbearable length.

Beyond the attention of the LGBT niche circuit of festivals and distribution, which is virtually guaranteed after Berger's Plan B and its follow-up, the Berlinale Teddy award winner, Absent, this is also a good fit for indie-loving festivals such as Thessaloniki, where Hawaii recently played as part of its focus on contemporary cinema from Argentina.

Hawaii most closely resembles Berger's 2012 short El Primo from the anthology Sexual Tension: Volatile. In both films, two young men are thrown together over the summer in someone else's house -- cue little clothing and lots of pool-time -- and the desire of one to make a move on the other is suspended by reticence and apprehension from the interested party; the unclear sexual orientation of the object of desire and, most importantly, the realization that what's truly erotic is not any physical act of but the moments before it, when every dream scenario is still possible.

The bearded and bespectacled Eugenio (Manuel Vignau, from Plan B), a scruffily handsome thirtysomething from Argentina's well-off middle class, has moved into the house of his (unseen) uncle so he can look after it for the summer and at the same time work on his novel in peace. When the younger Martin (square-jawed Uruguayan actor Mateo Chiarino) comes knocking on his door to ask him for some summer yard work, the duo realize they used to play together in childhood in the same neighborhood and Martin's hired straight away to do odd jobs around the house.

What Martin doesn't dare tell Eugenio is that he's actually homeless and sleeping in the park, though by the time Eugenio finds out, the two have spent enough time together for Eugenio to suggest Martin sleep in the house's shed. The house-sitter might have an ulterior motive for keeping his worker close: In an early scene, in which Martin takes a shower in Eugenio's house after a sweaty day of work, the latter's impatiently waiting outside the bathroom door with its translucent window, with its suggestive, flesh-colored shapes behind it, suggesting what will become increasingly clear over the course of the film: Eugenio would like nothing more than being manhandled by the help.

Some gay audiences might describe the film as a 100-minute cock-tease while others might find Hawaii's earnest tone laughable or pretentious, or both, but Berger has to be commended for taking a set-up that would normally be associated with the first minute or two of a porno and spinning it into something of feature length, which allows him to explore ideas of the gay male gaze and desire as well as more complex issues, especially of class (Martin's not only much poorer and a little younger than Eugenio but also foreign-sounding, much less experienced and more prone to being exploited, all conflicting feelings that fuel Martin's hesitation as much as his shyness or worry about Martin's unknown sexual proclivities).

As in Absent, there's a lush orchestral score (courtesy of Pedro Irusta, who also produced) that frequently overstates the case, though thankfully it mostly disappears when the dynamics heat up and Berger allows the pregnant silences to tell part of the story. The rest of the craft credits are unpretentious but slick.

Venue: Thessaloniki Film Festival (Contemporary Argentine Cinema)
Production companies: La Noria Cine
Cast: Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino, Manuel Martinez Sobrado
Writer-Director: Marco Berger

Producers: Pedro Irusta, Marco Berger

Director of photography: Tomas Perez Silva
Production designers: Pedro Irusta, Marco Berger 

Music: Pedro Irusta

Editor: Marco Berger

Sales: Media Luna Films
No rating, 100 minutes.

      很多同志电影常常是两个男人以性开始相恋。夏威夷这部电影却是一部表现两个男人在不清楚对方的性取向的情况下，逐渐相恋的故事。这部电影拍得非常的细腻，整部电影对话极少，人物主要就两人，影片通过看似平淡的情节，不断互相的试探和微妙的表示，最终由两棵菠萝的连接达到了心灵的相通。
      两人的相遇是马丁到欧亨尼奥家找临活，马丁先认出了欧亨尼奥，当欧亨尼奥认出马丁时，脸上马上漾起了笑容。在泳池边，欧亨尼奥恍惚出神像在回忆，而马丁在那里不停的说着，但是电影这时却没有声音，这里让人禁不住会想象他们小时的情景。直到马丁说到两颗菠萝，才有声音，才突然把欧亨尼奥唤醒。影片在这里很巧妙的埋下了一个以菠萝作为童年情愫的象征。
       两人已分别最少十几年，再度相逢时，一个是作家，一个是居无定所的临时工。时间的隔离以及身份的差异，使两人有着很大的生分和距离，但是这些都不能阻止欧亨尼奥对马丁的日渐好感。趁马丁换衣服时偷看，借喝醉躺在马丁身边，而马丁也趁欧亨尼奥不在，偷穿欧亨尼奥的衣服，躺在欧亨尼奥的床上。当马丁腿上被铁丝划破时，欧亨尼奥极度的关心，并仔细的给马丁上药包扎带他去打针。在跟马丁比赛跑步时，欧亨尼奥故意让马丁摸他急促跳动的心脏。借口到布宜诺斯艾利斯办事，实际是去给马丁买了很多衣服，其中应该还有情侣短裤。这一系列的情节都让马丁明白，欧亨尼奥关心他，喜欢他。但是欧亨尼奥一直犹豫，因为他不能确定马丁是否也是同志，另一个原因就像他对他哥哥说的，他不能给了马丁一个工作就要马丁委身于自己。所以当马丁主动吻了他时，他拒绝了，他怕马丁是知道他是同志而讨好他，因为马丁看到了欧亨尼奥画的很多男性裸体画。
       当马丁生气离开后，欧亨尼奥却受不了了，他懂得了马丁的真心。他坐卧不安，没法工作，到处去寻找，不知该怎样找回马丁。突然耳边回响起马丁说的两颗菠萝，他才醒悟了，他立马翻箱倒柜地找出小时候的幻灯片，含有两颗菠萝的幻灯片把马丁召唤了回来，他们两人都明白了，他们要做一颗菠萝相伴在对方身边。这一刻，他们才微笑着亲吻在一起。
        这部电影非常耐看，两个男人之间的爱情也是这样的磨叽，充满柔情。每看一遍都会被那些小细节感动。其实同性之爱跟异性之爱没有什么差别，都是爱，都是那么美好。