Mandragora (1997)
Za ovaj mi je jedan prijatelj rekao da ga obavezno pogledam, sam nedavno našao na netu i doživio totalno razočarenje. Možda ovo filmsko "remek djelo" i nije toliko loše koliko ja nisam bio raspoložen za temuu filma. Radi se prikazu dezorjentisanih tinejdzera koji su upali u Danteov krug droge, prostitucije i u samo dno ljudske zajednice! Izdrogirani tinejdžeri koji upadaju u ruke raznih makroa, sadistički nastrojenih pedofiličara i sličnih maštaju o slavi, novcu i naravno danu kada će izaći iz devetog kruga.
Naravno odatle izlaza nema!
Ono što me je iznerviralo je činjenica da niko na takve stvari ne obraća pažnju, sve dok je u igri veliki novac! Sve je samo velika gluma!
Ko ima želudac za ovu temu preporučujem mu da pogleda ovaj film!
Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Writers: Wiktor Grodecki
David Svec
Release Date: 23 October 1997 (Czech Republic)
Genre: Drama
Plot Keywords: AIDS / Homosexual / Prostitution / Semi
Documentary / YouthCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)
Miroslav Caslavka ... Marek
David Svec ... David
Pavel Skripal ... Honza
Kostas Zerdolaglu ... Krysa
Miroslav Breu ... Libor
Jirí Kodes ... Father
Karel Polisensky ... Sascha
Richard Toth ... George
Jiri Pachman ... Pan Franta
Pavel Koci ... Rudy
Jitka Smutná ... Krysa's Wife
Runtime: 126 min
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Color: Color (Kodak)Sound Mix: Dolby SR
A Great Movie From Start to Finish, 4 September 2004, 9/10
Author: Se7en13 from Canada
While as real as it gets The other movie that Director had done was Body without Soul. While not as great as Body without the Soul. Mandragora puts a story and makes it breathtaking from start to finish. The main star Marek runs away and decides to become a prostitute. He gets picked up by a slimy greasy pimp. But later on meets another prostitute, David, both of them start to hustle around and make money to start there own prostitute organization. In the movie you can Tell Marek is attracted to David very much and that he is gay. But things go down hill as Marek starts doing drugs and then finds out he has AIDS, a very powerful story in my opinion.
Most people have said that it's unrealistic and very untrue i find this movie has some great elements while not the best movie ever made and not quite perfect it's a movie about mistakes and paths in life as well as coming of age and the downside of prostitution. The movie ends with one of the saddest I've seen in a while beautifully shot and written if you enjoyed movies like L.I.E. Mandragora is right up there to watch as well.
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A Very Natural Thing (1974)
One evening at the bar, David is singled out to dance by Mark (Curt Gareth), who portrays a businessman. They end up spending the night together, which at first seems like a one-night stand until David says hed like to see Mark again, and Mark agrees. Not long after, the pair begin a monogamous relationship, and David moves in with Mark. But when Mark wants to have sex with other men, the relationship starts to break down. He rejects the idea of modeling a gay relationship on heterosexual marriage, and he is irritated that David wants to "keep pushing this romantic thing." Mark would rather have an understanding that either of them can have sex with other men when they feel like it, but this ends up alienating them from each other. Mark refuses to say, "I love you" until David playfully wrestles with him and tells him, "Say it...again...once more for good measure." After a year, though, David realizes that the two of them are just marking time. The two go to Fire Island for a weekend in an attempt to spice up their relationship, and although David tries to please Mark by entering an orgy, he cant go through with it. After a fight, David temporarily moves in with his friend Alan, who gives David an objective perspective on what happened. In a later encounter with Mark at Coney Island, David finally realizes that there cant be a reconciliation, as Mark is more interested in sex than a romantic relationship.
The film was seen as the gay response to Love Story (1970), the movie famous for the phrase, "Love means never having to say youre sorry." Similarly, Mark tells David, "Love means never having to say youre in love," and a montage of the two men rolling down a leaf-covered hill, quietly lying together at home, and being in love mimics a montage of the heterosexual couple in Love Story. Both movies argued for an unconventional alternative to traditional marriage, despite a commitment. David tells Jason that he is committed to him, but that this commitment is based on wanting to be together, not having to be together. The ending is very optimistic, which was out of the ordinary for gay relationship films until then. Earlier films were dominated by tales of gays and lesbians being outcasts of society, mentally disturbed or committing suicide; later films were sadly dominated by the emergence of AIDS. A Very Natural Thing thus represents a short period in time where gay liberation flourished, and filmmakers could explore relationships in much the same way that films with heterosexual characters did.
The film was one of the first mainstream films to show homosexuality as a valid and normal act of love, i.e. "a very natural thing," as it attempted to explore the options for gay couples in 1973, including footage of an actual Gay Pride celebration. Many heterosexual film critics felt that the films depiction of love between two men as romantic made the film automatically "an argument rather than an entertainment" (New York Post). The film showed a young gay couple going through many of the same rituals and facing many of the same challenges as a straight couple; and, for many heterosexual Americans.
