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What the hell? I would've considered giving it a full 10 stars. There are some beautiful shots and sequences and even though it can be a little hard to watch at times, it's a very good film, until the last 100 seconds. I have no idea what the director's and writer's point was? The last 100 seconds need to be erased or something. I was having a great time and now I'm heavily disgusted. If you're planning on watching this, stop watching when 5:05 is left (with credits) or 1:45 is left (without credits) because really, the film ends there. Whatever it was after that, it was inhuman and disturbing and most of all, pointless.

Beautifully shot with sparse dialogue and apparently based on a true story, it's a great film as long as you're ok without a happy ending.

Taking place in a small village in Hungary, there's some homophobia which could be triggering but then again that's the world we live in. It might not be pretty but life isn't always.

This isn't an American film so don't watch it if you're expecting one. Shots are long and there can be stretches where not much is said but the actors do a commendable job regardless. I would give it 7/10 but I had to deduct one for the ending. It was literally jaw dropping and left me feeling a let down. That being said, if you don't mind dark endings, then it's definitely worth a watch.

I was really shocked with the ending of this. It was really hurtful to watch the end 😢 Nevertheless I did enjoy the whole plot.

A very good movie concept with very beautiful picture of a Hungarian gay themed movie. It deals as well with violence and shows the religious side and portrays homophobia as true as possible. A very beautiful and very realistic depiction of a love triangle. I enjoyed it only from the start until about 1 hour 32 minutes. The motive is a bit hard to believe and a bit far from the trigger. In order to leave the impression that killing a homosexual is justified by religion, I guess. It's sad that the director chose to play it safe so that it could be released in his own country (even if it had to fall into the horror category).

Overall it's a good movie with a few trigger warning, and at least Bernard's character made the right choice to get out of there.

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.