{"id":409234,"date":"2022-02-23T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:02:59","slug":"watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Three Months&#8217; Review: Troye Sivan Sets a Positive Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407aade6619\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407aade6619\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Three_Months_Review_Troye_Sivan_Sets_a_Positive_Example%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Three Months&#8217; Review: Troye Sivan Sets a Positive Example&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Three_Months_Review_Troye_Sivan_Sets_a_Positive_Example%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Three Months&#8217; Review: Troye Sivan Sets a Positive Example&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-three-months-review-troye-sivan-sets-a-positive-example\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Three_Months_Review_Troye_Sivan_Sets_a_Positive_Example%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Three Months&#8217; Review: Troye Sivan Sets a Positive Example&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Three_Months_Review_Troye_Sivan_Sets_a_Positive_Example%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Three Months&#8217; Review: Troye Sivan Sets a Positive Example&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Fittingly enough, \u201cThree Months\u201d is a movie about waiting, and while 12 weeks may seem like an eternity to its openly gay lead character, Caleb (Australian pop star Troye Sivan), it\u2019s nothing compared with the decades others have spent waiting for a project like this to come along. Here, readily available to anyone with a Paramount Plus sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion, is a frank, affirmational portrait of a contemporary queer teenager. Writer-director Jared Frieder\u2019s feature debut feels like the LGBT equivalent of \u201cJuno\u201d: snappy and refreshingly nonjudgmental in dealing with the consequences of a risky one-night stand.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, when the movie is set, it takes three months for an antibody test to conclusively determine whether someone who might have been exposed to HIV was in fact infected. That\u2019s a simple rule of the road for sexually active gay men, but one rarely discussed in popular culture. It can hardly be understated how important it is for contemporary adolescents, bombarded as they are by pornography and peer pressure, to also be informed about the consequences of casual sex \u2014 not in an alarmist or moralistic way, mind you, but empathetically so, by a film that depicts what they\u2019re going through, if and when they find themselves in Caleb\u2019s shoes. (His shoes, it should be said, are one of the film\u2019s most endearing details: classic white canvas Chucks, covered heel to toe in random and sometimes raunchy doodles.)<\/p>\n<p>With his porcelain features and Pre-Raphaelite curls, Sivan serves as an idealized stand-in for an insecure gay teen. He doesn\u2019t seem a fraction as neurotic or insecure as Frieder intended Caleb to be, and yet, the singer (who also acted in gay conversion drama \u201cBoy Erased\u201d) manages to suggest that the character\u2019s sarcasm is a kind of self-defense strategy. Freshly graduated from high school, Caleb enjoyed a dreamy (off-camera) hookup with an out-of-town stranger, only to realize after the condom broke that his partner was HIV positive. Now he\u2019s looking at a summer of agonizing uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Patience is not Caleb\u2019s strong suit. That much is apparent from the opening scene, when, biking home through Hollywood, Fla., he throws a small fit when obliged to pause for the local drawbridge to accommodate a passing ship. This vignette reveals a thing or two about Caleb\u2019s personality \u2014 as does the big purple tandem bicycle he inherited from his dad.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, independence is not Caleb\u2019s strong suit either. He goes through life looking for a boyfriend or someone else to \u201ccomplete\u201d him, to the extent that half the movie is spent with his navigating whether Estha (Viveik Kalra), the cute Indian kid in his support group, could be \u201cthe one.\u201d That means nearly the entire time Caleb\u2019s processing the possibility that he is HIV positive, he\u2019s chastely dating someone going through the same thing. Still, corny as it may sound, Caleb\u2019s journey of introspection and self-discovery is ultimately designed to teach this insecure young man to stop worrying about appealing to others and learn to love himself.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s perhaps the most valuable lesson one can offer any adolescent, gay or otherwise, though Frieder errs on the side of overdoing all the feel-good messaging. (Spoiler alert: Skip to the next paragraph till you\u2019ve seen \u201cThree Months.\u201d) It\u2019s frustrating that a film in which someone constantly obsesses about his HIV status ultimately decides to withhold the results from audiences. Frieder\u2019s essentially saying that it doesn\u2019t matter, since Caleb realizes that he\u2019s lovable either way. But that\u2019s disingenuous, given the world we live in, and a more interesting personal journey might have begun with a positive diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Caleb, he\u2019s surrounded by people who accept him unconditionally. Not his parents: His dad died years earlier, and his Orthodox Jewish mom (Amy Landecker) is largely out of the picture. Caleb now lives with his grandmother (Ellen Burstyn, whose star status lends oomph to a minor role) and her preternaturally supportive husband (Louis Gossett Jr.). His lesbian best friend Dara (Brianne Tju) has his back through the whole ordeal, even when Caleb all but forgets about her to focus on his new crush.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb and Estha\u2019s romance should appeal to those who haven\u2019t seen many queer courtships on screen, and the cross-cultural aspect lends it an added dimension of interest. (There\u2019s no shortage of charming gay rom-coms out there, though it\u2019s still rare to stumble across one on a platform like Paramount Plus.) The movie, which was produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, includes a conspicuously self-congratulatory thread in which Caleb rewatches classic episodes of \u201cThe Real World,\u201d in which Pedro Zamora makes history by sharing his HIV diagnosis. That M<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV series<\/a> helped destigmatize AIDS for an entire generation, and \u201cThree Months\u201d wants to have the same impact on young audiences, giving them a positive point of reference in a world still reluctant to openly discuss such things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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