Leviticus

WHEN WE SEE THEIR PASSIONATE FIGHTING TURN INTO A DIIFERENT KIND OF PASSION, WE CAN'T GET A HOPEFUL FEELING FOR THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN TRANSPIRE. AND, WHEN WE LATER SEE NAIM WITNESS THE EMBRACE BETWEEN RYAN & HUNTER (JEREMY BLEWITT), & THEN SEE THE DISTRAUGHT LOOK ON MR. BIRD'S FACE, WE RECOGNIZE THE DIFFCULTIES THAT ARE GOING TO ARISE FOR ALL THREE OF THEM. HOWEVER, IT IS TO MR. CHIARELLA'S CREDIT AS BOTH A WRITER & A DIRECTOR THAT HE CAN FIND A WAY TO SHOW US HOW NAIM & RYAN CAN ARISE FROM THEIR DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES.

WE ALL KNOW ABOUT HE REAL LIFE HORRORS OF HOMOPHOBIA, BUT DIRECTOR-SCREENWRITER ADRIAN CHIARELLA HAS GIVEN US A N INGENIOUS TAKE ON THE SUPERNATURAL OUTCOMES OF HOMOPHOBIA. WE FIRST GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS WHEN WE SEE NAIM (JOE BIRD) AND HIS MOTHER, ARLENE (MIA WASIKOWKA) IN THEIR CHURCH WHILE ARLENE IS GIVING TESTIMONY ABOUT LETTING JESES INTO HER LIFE. WHEN WE SEE DIRECTOR CHIARELLA PAN BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ARLENE & BIRD, WE GET AN OMINOUS SENSE OF DREAD FROM THE TENSE LOOK ON MR. BIRD'S FACE, &, WHEN WE HEAR ARLENE SAY, "THE SILENCE MAKES ME FEEL SAFE," WE REALIZE THAT NAIM DOESN'T FEEL SAFE AT ALL. THE SAME FEELING IS EVOKED WHEN WE SEE NAIM & HIS FRIEND , RYAN (STACEY CLAUSEN) GET INTO A SCUFFLE.