SBlues This isn't the first and it will not be the last of these gay themed/homophobic inspired films. American and Foreign filmmakers have been making films like this since the start of movie making; for self-serving reasons.I give it 2 stars for the typical/manipulative casting of good looking young lead actors to lure in gay viewers as well as the "curious" religious fanatics and/or homophobic viewers to revel in for various reasons.As for the story/plot and that old fashioned tragic (homophobic) ending, I give it "thumbs down"/no points because we've seen 1000's of other pointless pseudo gay films with similar "so called love" stories with a predictable tragic ending to appease the homophobic viewers as well as those self-loathing souls that live to hate anything or anyone that look, live and act different than they do.I never explain the story/plot in my reviews because the synopsis is always available with the film details above. Also because I hate reviews that waste time trying to explain the plot when most of us already know what the film is about or at least have an understanding of it.

sinnerofcinema Szabolcs (András Sütö) plays in a German football team, as does Bernard (Sebastian Urzendowsky). A lost match and an ugly confrontation leads Szabolcs to reconsider his life. He goes back to Hungary for simplicity & to build up an inherited broke down house and to bask in his newly found solitude. He meets Aron, a local who welcomes him by stealing his motorcycle. In a odd turn of events, Szabolc hires Aron (Ádám Varga) to help him rebuild his property. A mutual attraction develops to the detriment of Szabolcs, as Aron's mother and local mates disapprove of their relationship. Violence ensues for both. A sexual friendship of the same sex attraction breeds contempt with the towns people, as Aron's dependent mother denounces her son's lifestyle to the local bullies in an attempt to "correct" his behavior. A confused yet curious Aron expresses his affection for Szabolc with a mix bag of emotions and several eruptive confrontations that will ultimately lead to a very shocking and disturbing finale.This Hungarian/German co-production may very well be reflective, and a testament of the the state of affairs and societal hostilities that still remain in place in a few rural towns within eastern Europe where the enabling, persecution & disdain for same sex couples seems to remain latent. This mentality shepherded by religious intolerance is what leads the violence and the hostile living conditions for anyone not subscribed to the few who have self appointed themselves as the enforcers of the town's moral code of conduct. Hungarian director Adam Csaczi's unveiling of the story with its sweeping cinematography, superb direction and acting is poetic, lyrical and subtly mesmerizing.

a00030864 Essentially Stadt Land Fluss with more sexual content in it but the movie was also moody, intimate and the ending took me by complete surprise. The movie took awhile to get rolling but that is typical of European movies (i.e., no action scene within the 1st minute as in American movies needed to keep the audience from leaving the movie theater). All 3 actors in the movie were believable and into their roles. If those 3 boys are straight, they deserve an award. You could conclude it was East European homophobic but; rather, Aron could not move on without freeing himself of Szabolcs and the guilt after his Mother's death - he was addicted to Szabolcs. That has nothing to do with geography nor homophobia, in the end it is selfish love for ones self over all others and in its worst form. Aron could not come to terms with whom he was.

jm10701 Question: Does the world need another movie about homophobia? Answer: No. One was enough.We need to know that it exists; we don't need to be obsessed with it. We don't need to experience over and over - vicariously, through characters in a movie instead of our own bodies - the pain of being hated because we're different. We need to stop wallowing in rejection. We need to stop thinking of ourselves as victims and celebrating our victimhood.Many gay men disagree with me. Many gay men think Brokeback Mountain is the greatest gay movie ever made. If you're one of them, if your favorite gay movies are ones where the gay character(s) get rejected, humiliated, beaten up or killed (often by the straight men they love) then you will probably like this movie. I'm not saying any of that happens in this movie, so this is not a spoiler; I'm just saying if you like movies in which gay men suffer because they're gay, you'll probably like this one.Personally, I'm tired of that suffer-for-being-gay crap. But I'm equally tired of gay movies at the other end of the spectrum, in which toned, tanned, hairless gym bunnies with huge - muscles - celebrate their own fabulousness while inferior (ie, normal) gay men worship them and brain-dead queens twitter comically in the background.AND I'm tired of movies that try to have it both ways, with an hour of pain and rejection followed by a miraculous happy ending, in which the hunky, white-toothed prince carries his frog bride off into the West Hollywood sunset.What I want, and what I believe most gay men need, is movies about ordinary gay men, whose lives are fun but not fabulous, who have friends - gay AND straight - who love and support them, not because they're rejects who need that support but because they're interesting men who are fun to be around.I want movies in which gay men live full, rich, happy, challenging lives with AND WITHOUT partners, in which a gay man isn't defined or validated or made whole by the man who loves him any more than a woman is and - even more important - would laugh at such a stupid idea. We need liberated gay men in movies just as we needed liberated women in movies 50 years ago.I want movies in which no one is humiliated or beaten. I want movies in which no one vomits. I want movies in which the stupid phrase "unconditional love" is never heard.NOBODY loves unconditionally. It's not possible for human beings to love unconditionally. That's as big a lie as Prince Charming. We love what makes us happy, what makes us feel useful and wanted and valuable. That's good, not bad. Unconditional love doesn't exist, so we need to stop insisting on finding it.All I'm saying is that we gay men need to accept the fact that we are human beings, and we need movies that show us acting like human beings instead of like caricatures.