This movie is weird. It was a random Mubi-watch because the name is interesting, especially for the time it was made in.
For context, being gay was illegal in Germany up until shortly before this movie. So this was probably the first movie about this subject.
And it was interesting for sure.
The story follows a young, gay man moving to Berlin, meeting a guy there and falling in love with him. But after 4 months of being together he wants to leave, because every man is educated to just care about himself and not about anyone else, so they just can't get along.
We then learn, by following him on his sexual escapades (which means him running around and seeing many people), about the gay culture, what groups of gay people there are and why gays are "weird" or "different".
The idea is good and daring for the time for sure. But it wasn't really done that well. The whole movie is narrated. There is basically no live recorded sound (except for 2 music numbers), everything is told, either by a narrator or by people narrating in dialogue. It really threw me off at the beginning, because you hear two people talking, but you see two people talking in other intervals. It just doesn't make sense.
Also the dialogue is not good. It feels totally scripted. Especially in the end when we have a round-table discussion between 5 or 6 naked men laying on a bed, talking about what to do to change the world. Instead of talking to each other, they feel more like they are talking to an audience, telling the people in the world what to do.
It shows problems in the world, yes. It shows how homosexuals lived at the time. But it really just feels like an educational movie.
I'm not rating this movie. It is something that should be seen, or better should have been seen at the time because I feel like now it is different. And it really is something that you won't have seen before.
But it's not that well done.
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