Suffering from severe agoraphobia, two young men, lovers, hide away
from the world in a dingy apartment, and their only contact with the
outside world is spying on people through a window and making stories up
about the passers-by. One of them (Wade Radford) is perfectly happy with
things as they are, he doesn't like people much anyways and he continually
makes up excuses why he doesn't like really nice places like beaches or
stuff even. The other (Ricki Enghoff) isn't content with the situation
after 6 months anymore. Sure, he's still afraid of the outside, but quite
fed up with the apartment they're at as well, so he tries to persuade his
lover to take a trip with him, threatening to take the trip alone should
he not come with him, and maybe never return. Will this tear the lovers
apart? Boys on 8 Tape is filmmaking at its most basic,
with the two actors filming one another when not in the shot themselves,
or just using a tripod. But that's not to say the film's amateurish in the
least, actually a lot of thought has gone into making this one visually
interesting, and the story is told in a rather unusual way, consisting of
quite a few pivotal points made via monologues the actors deliver in front
of a mirror rather than in dialogue form, plus the story is rather
well-structured and very intimately told. Very nice indeed.
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