I found this movie by chance last Sunday. Today is Wednesday and I've seen it 6 times already. So, did I love it? Absolutely.
I'll try to keep some order but i have so many things to say about this movie that I don't know if i'm gonna make it.
What I love about it is that it feels so real. Marc struggling with his desire for Kay, the necessity of touching him, the peace he shows when they are together... He might had that with Bettina before knowing Kay, but not anymore. He knows is the wrong thing to do, not because he's with a guy but because he's being unfaithful and yet he cannot do anything about it, but keep falling down.
I also love that they are Men. I mean, they don't talk their problems out. They meet, have sex, dance, caress, but they don't talk. When frustration is so strong they cannot hold it, they use violence (one blow at the face, tumbling down some furniture...). The same thing happens with passion, they just collide into kisses, (at the beginning, at least) and then they have sex. I'm talking about the movie, here. Not about each and every men around the world.
On the other side we have Bettina. This clever girl who smells problems at first sight and keeps waiting for him to talk. Obviously, he doesn't know how to do it. So he just keeps pushing her away. There is a sentence that shocked me: "I was alone, like a single mum". It kind of says that she doesn't care what's going on with him. Or maybe a little, but what's really important, is people not knowing something's happening. And I think that's so sad, and so common...
And finally, coming out of the closet. I think at the hospital is the very first time Marc feels what means to be gay. People around him is ashamed for something it came so natural into his life. People bullying him for the stupid fact of who he loves. And giving up his relationship with Kay is his way to do the right thing, even tough his body is screaming against it. He feels so lost when going into Kay's place and finding it empty.
I'll try to keep some order but i have so many things to say about this movie that I don't know if i'm gonna make it.
What I love about it is that it feels so real. Marc struggling with his desire for Kay, the necessity of touching him, the peace he shows when they are together... He might had that with Bettina before knowing Kay, but not anymore. He knows is the wrong thing to do, not because he's with a guy but because he's being unfaithful and yet he cannot do anything about it, but keep falling down.
I also love that they are Men. I mean, they don't talk their problems out. They meet, have sex, dance, caress, but they don't talk. When frustration is so strong they cannot hold it, they use violence (one blow at the face, tumbling down some furniture...). The same thing happens with passion, they just collide into kisses, (at the beginning, at least) and then they have sex. I'm talking about the movie, here. Not about each and every men around the world.
On the other side we have Bettina. This clever girl who smells problems at first sight and keeps waiting for him to talk. Obviously, he doesn't know how to do it. So he just keeps pushing her away. There is a sentence that shocked me: "I was alone, like a single mum". It kind of says that she doesn't care what's going on with him. Or maybe a little, but what's really important, is people not knowing something's happening. And I think that's so sad, and so common...
And finally, coming out of the closet. I think at the hospital is the very first time Marc feels what means to be gay. People around him is ashamed for something it came so natural into his life. People bullying him for the stupid fact of who he loves. And giving up his relationship with Kay is his way to do the right thing, even tough his body is screaming against it. He feels so lost when going into Kay's place and finding it empty.