Review of Taekwondo

Taekwondo (2016)
3/10
Taekwondo is ideal for gay men that prefer to be sexually teased only...
12 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The title has nothing to do with kicking, fighting or whatever most people think of when they hear the word... Taekwondo is more homoerotic than anything else that would fit into the "gay themed" film world because it appears to be about watching cute men doing nothing but lounge around this house wearing little or nothing at all for almost two hours.

This is a running theme in just about all of Marco Berger's films and in one of his co-director's films. They appear to be fixated or have a fascination with strong, mostly heterosexual (and gay) Latino men as well as average build Latino men. From professional looking ball players, porn actors, to average looking men/typical co-starring actor types. As attractive as each of them are, all of them fall into other categories as well: slightly quirky or sexy or just plain hot. This is the type of film you can watch with the sound muted because it was made for voyeuristic viewers, to admire good looking men doing what they do when they're just "hanging out" with "friends".

There is two Directors listed for this film, Marco Berger is one that I am familiar with more and he isn't good at picking titles to match his films. His films often have no plot or story-line worth following or discussing. Just a bunch of scenes or short films put together of (usually) sexually frustrated men that appears to be a bit mentally challenged when it comes to properly communicating their sexual feelings for other mentally challenged men. Why you might ask? Marco Berger (the writer/director) loves his hot male Latino men to be very slow and kind of clueless in regards to their sexual feelings for other men they find attractive.

It's definitely made for all voyeuristic gay men (like the director Marco Berger and his co-director) that have an appreciation for watching/gazing at hot Latino men up close & personal. This is especially made for all those curious gay men that enjoy being sexually teased only because in their minds this is their main source of arousal rather than having physical sex with others.

Like living in a dream/fantasy world where you're forced to keep a distance, physically from other humans, never to touch or be touched by them, or to smell, be intimate or communicate with them as well.

Basically this film is a series of fragmented scenes. Short and sometimes lingering shots of sexy men in their 20's and early 30's wandering around (half naked or naked) in a house chatting about meaningless things, smiling and gazing at each other lovingly or curiously.

The end goal for the filmmakers it seems is to continuously tease the viewers until they begin to masturbate during the film or once the film ends.

In other words, soft-core porn for gay men, which can also be perceived as "an artistic film" without the usual simulated/fake sex in soft-core porn.
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