hedwig
Yesterday I watched the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell. Totally brilliant! About a transvestite who flees from East Germany to the U.S. and starts a career as a (largely unknown) rock star. Totally bizarre story with brilliant music, very cool song texts, very artistic style of filming, very poetic moments and the story and main character is so bizarre, that all the actually very normal human emotions seem amplified.
The movie is totally different from Shortbus, the second movie by Mitchell, which I saw at the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and which was the reason I checked out this one. Shortbus is about the sexual lives of two couples, a straight one and a gay one, and all their complications, centering around this sex club called Shortbus. Many people accuse Shortbus of being more porn than art, which is unfair, although it is extremely pornographic. But just like with Hedwig, the extremism of it, this time in its porn, seems to amplify what the movie is actually about, and so many of the things the main characters experience are so recognizable, and yet so rarely put in film.
So if you can handle very controversial and extremely explicit movies, both of those are highly, highly recommended!
Add comment December 20th, 2006