Saturday, October 27, 2007
'Go West'
I normally watch 'Folk Show' if it is a Saturday night that I am not doing something else, and this is one of those Saturday nights.
'Nebo iznad krajolika' was serialized and now to my amazement and delight,F.T.V. is serializing 'Go West' in a similar fashion.
For those not in the know, here's a B.B.C. story about the film before it was out:
B.B.C. Story on 'Go West'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4368077.stm
Frankly I found the first part to be funny in a very bitter way, and very good.
The film is gutsy for more reasons than the issue of gayness, and inter-communal strife,and inter-communal partnerships, it's gutsy because it takes on other physical and psychological effects of war, like nightmares, like living in the destruction, which was good for NO community in this country.
The couple pass as a man and a woman, and it's very difficult,for the one passing as a woman, because of the conditions of village life, women for example do not feel any particular shyness about one another's bodies, and the gay male who is passing as a woman has many uncomfortable times of needing to make excuses, further, he's Muslim, and he has to conceal his discomfort with the different diet of Serbian people, ie, pork, and LOTS of it! Rakija and lots of it, and he pretends to be ill to avoid both these substances.
There is the matter of his partner's best friend, a guy who is like a brother to his partner. There is so much to hide, and they need to get out soooo badly.
As well he sees a Muslim woman called names and given a bad time by another woman, a Serbian woman, that was hard, and has a nightmare about a scene of ethnic cleansing.
I should mention that while so far there's no overt sex, for those who might have children to consider, this is an adult film.
1. In the nightmare sequence, at one point, the man passing as a woman lifts his skirt and you clearly see his penis.
2. The Serbian woman and he go to get water. When they get to the water, it's a hot day and the Serbian woman takes off her blouse and splashes water on herself and tries to get the man who is passing as a woman to do likewise, he doesn't, and it's very uncomfortable.
You do get a clear view of her very shapely breasts.
So if you don't want your kids seeing this you've been forewarned.
Really though, I don't see what the objections were beforehand. It's about two guys who for reasons quite aside from war, need to get out, the war only makes the problem far more urgent.
I can't wait for the rest of it!
I am here to say that film in BiH has been very creative and very bold, and very original.
Film makers here take chances, and now the T.V. stations are taking chances that would not have been taken only a few years before.
'Nebo iznad krajolika' was serialized and now to my amazement and delight,F.T.V. is serializing 'Go West' in a similar fashion.
For those not in the know, here's a B.B.C. story about the film before it was out:
B.B.C. Story on 'Go West'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4368077.stm
Frankly I found the first part to be funny in a very bitter way, and very good.
The film is gutsy for more reasons than the issue of gayness, and inter-communal strife,and inter-communal partnerships, it's gutsy because it takes on other physical and psychological effects of war, like nightmares, like living in the destruction, which was good for NO community in this country.
The couple pass as a man and a woman, and it's very difficult,for the one passing as a woman, because of the conditions of village life, women for example do not feel any particular shyness about one another's bodies, and the gay male who is passing as a woman has many uncomfortable times of needing to make excuses, further, he's Muslim, and he has to conceal his discomfort with the different diet of Serbian people, ie, pork, and LOTS of it! Rakija and lots of it, and he pretends to be ill to avoid both these substances.
There is the matter of his partner's best friend, a guy who is like a brother to his partner. There is so much to hide, and they need to get out soooo badly.
As well he sees a Muslim woman called names and given a bad time by another woman, a Serbian woman, that was hard, and has a nightmare about a scene of ethnic cleansing.
I should mention that while so far there's no overt sex, for those who might have children to consider, this is an adult film.
1. In the nightmare sequence, at one point, the man passing as a woman lifts his skirt and you clearly see his penis.
2. The Serbian woman and he go to get water. When they get to the water, it's a hot day and the Serbian woman takes off her blouse and splashes water on herself and tries to get the man who is passing as a woman to do likewise, he doesn't, and it's very uncomfortable.
You do get a clear view of her very shapely breasts.
So if you don't want your kids seeing this you've been forewarned.
Really though, I don't see what the objections were beforehand. It's about two guys who for reasons quite aside from war, need to get out, the war only makes the problem far more urgent.
I can't wait for the rest of it!
I am here to say that film in BiH has been very creative and very bold, and very original.
Film makers here take chances, and now the T.V. stations are taking chances that would not have been taken only a few years before.
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