"Out in the Dark" is another film festival award-winning film that can be highly recommended, because it is indeed a very topical and in-depth gay film.
The main points of interest in the film are as follows:
1. Involving Political Conflict
The background of the two protagonists of the film is Israel and Palestine, two countries with political conflicts in the Middle East.
2. Homosexuality and religious beliefs
The protagonist Nemo was born in a Muslim family, and Islam does not allow homosexuality to exist.
3. Gay
After so many years of LGBT affirmative action, homosexuality is still unable to be recognized and accepted by the general public as heterosexuality, so the subject of homosexuality itself has enough topic points.
Not to mention that the film has so many meaningful background endorsements, which elevates the level of the film. The faces of the two male protagonists alone are enough to convince you to click on it, and you will have endless aftertastes!
The film is about a transnational forbidden love:
Nemo, a Palestinian college student, sneaks into a gay bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, and meets Roy, a handsome and compelling lawyer. When Nemo obtained a student visa to legally travel to and from Israel, he and Roy quickly fell into a passionate love affair. But as the relationship heats up, so does resistance. For Nemo, Palestine is not ashamed of his sexuality, and Israel does not recognize his identity; while his brother was blacklisted by the Israeli secret service because of his political violence, and his visa was revoked as a result. Roy tried his best to run for Nemo, but was threatened by the official; and Nemo's secret seemed to be discovered by his family, and his life was in unprecedented danger...
At the beginning of the film, the story begins with the complex and tense political relationship between Israel and Palestine, and also filmed the cultural differences between the two countries, including how gays are treated in the two countries.
Gradually, the story will focus on Nemo. He began to struggle frantically between "faithful to his new Jewish boyfriend" and "obeying the rules of the Muslim family", coupled with his brother who joined the extremist act of terror and cruelty to Israelis, made him unable to catch my breath. In addition to this, he was deeply afraid of being in a social state that could not accept him. With his identity revealed, Nemo takes a risk every time he goes to Israel!
Roy and Nemo are like people in two different worlds: different nationalities, different social classes, different religions. Two different destinies are intertwined, and it is destined to be a vigorous love.
In the previous recommendations, I would superficially focus on "face" and "meat", but this movie is not the main point I want to recommend. The depth of the question behind the film is what attracts me. Because you can't imagine how many Nemo's are suffering from political conflict, racial identity, sexual orientation, etc. More attention and more thinking means more hope and possibility!
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