Coming Out
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Movie Reviews of Coming Out
Movie Review: good or bad
Summary: 4 Stars
I did not know East Germany has produced movies like this one exploring homosexuality in a high school teacher, Phillip.Many beautiful scenes and touching moments. The director was trying hard to explore the suppressed inner world struggles of the dual identity role, almost in all of us.
My problem with the movie is that many things were missing or the director forgot.
First Mattias, portrayed by Dirk Kummer, was such a success, but before the end, it was lost, after he found Phillips has a wife. If Phillip was indeed his dream man and had a huge impact on his life, his late behavor in the bar was rather stranger.
Phillip's figure was successfully presented in the first part of the movie, but in the last few moments when he finally was coming out, he became a weirdo.
In the end, I did not find that life is getting better for our human mankind from this movie, but rather depressing and a complete waste, which may not be what the director wanted to tell me.
Movie Review: So good, up to a point.
Summary: 4 Stars
The actors in this dramatic movie are all quite good. They have interesting personallities and are attractive. The sex scenes are not outstanding, but they are the important thing. The difficulty appears between the two male stars due to the marriage. I kept wanting to yell at the screen, "Say something right, dumby!" The four stars are due to the ending. I just don't understand why nothing was ever said about the reason for his wife being there. The ending therefore goes into the "moving on" stage, and the relationships never quite end. Maybe I'm a romantic, but it seems to me that a more developed repair of relationships or a better dissolution of them would have made the movie much better.Movie Review: Torn between two worlds
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this movie be a surprisingly sensitive treatment of what is still a difficult subject, especially for those involved. The acting seemed realistic and life-like, not staged. I was disappointed that the audio was poorly done. Most of the time the words were barely audible and, when they were, they were so slurred and mumbled as to be barely intelligible (and I'm no stranger to the language).
I wish there were more movies like this and, some day, perhpas someone will give us a slightly happier ending. Maybe?
Movie Review: make up your mind
Summary: 4 Stars
this shows a guy who needs to choose if he is agay or stright but in doing so ends up hurting the 2 people he wantsMovie Review: Universal themes, excellent backdrop
Summary: 3 Stars
Maybe it's the fact that it's an "indie" film and it's supposed to be "trendy." Or maybe it's that it's foreign. But what's with films that just *end* before you get anywhere?Set in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, the movie starts off with Mathias getting his stomach pumped, and we eventually learn that he's attempted suicide because he's gay. That's the last we see of Mathias for a bit, and instead we start focusing on Philipp, a high school teacher.
Philipp, however, clearly has issues with his sexuality. He gets himself a girlfriend to present to the world his heterosexuality, but, having been led into an underground gay bar, his latent tendencies erupt and become irrepressible. He eventually meets Mathias, who quickly becomes the object not just of his lust, but his genuine affection as well.
The story is a compelling one, and not just because it takes place in East Berlin - I know plenty of people here in the States who have problems with their own homosexuality and end up doing what Philipp does. The characters transcend national borders. They're people.
The acting is impressive. Philipp clearly is tormented, and the viewer can feel the pull and pressures of his life grating on him. Repression is a terrible thing.
Where the movie loses it for me is its substantial lack of focus and drive. So many loose ends that aren't adequately explained. Words to ponder after the movie has run its course: What happens to: Marriage? Baby? Job? Mother? Mathias? Philipp? With no apparent answer to any of these apparent questions, I was left a little empty. Show me an ending! Any ending!
Moreover, the philosophizing becomes a bit much. Between a former -- trick? boyfriend? -- and the old man at the bar, the message came across a bit too heavy-handed. Perhaps it's because, in the States now, we're more steeped in the rhetoric and (in some places) can be contentedly and confidently "out." It was relevant back then, I'm sure, but now, it got a bit tiring.
All in all, this movie was a decent effort, and entertaining for what it's worth. I just really wish they would have inserted a more definitive ending.