Boy-touchy pics + movie rec
Hello there :-)
I hope the following is in accordance with the rules, I do bear some boy-touchy goodness after all.
I would like to introduce to you a German film called Before The Fall (German title: Napola - Elite für den Führer) that opens in New York and Chicago on October 7th. (For further dates and cities please visit the website.)
Germany, 1942. The Hitler regime is at the peak of its political and military power. Seventeen-year-old Friedrich Weimer, from the Berlin working-class district of Wedding, is a gifted boxer. Thanks to his talent, he receives an offer to study at an elite National-Political School, the NAPOLA of Allenstein, which trains the future leaders of the German Reich. Friedrich sees this as the chance of a lifetime to free himself from the restrictions of his class and enrolls in the school, which is located in an old castle, against the will of his parents. There, in a disconcerting world dominated by harsh Nazi discipline, he experiences both fierce rivalry and unexpected camaraderie - until a barbarous raid against escaped prisoners of war and his growing friendship with the quiet and sensitive Albrecht Stein, the son of a high-ranking official, force him to make an important decision, one that will also mark the end of his youth.
Even if you might feel reluctant to watch a movie taking place during the time of the Nazi regime in Germany or wonder how such a movie could ever be slashy, you might well give this film a chance because it is not - in no way whatsoever - what you would expect of a typical film that deals with Nazi Germany.
You see these two boys and their very personal experiences with the system and it is through these boys that you become aware of the inhumanity of the Nazi regime. Sometimes I had the feeling that part of the message of the film would work anytime anyplace because the film shows what a system based on oppression, what any kind of oppression actually can do to you as an individual; what it can do to you when who you are does not conform to the ideology and rules of those in charge.
In addition to that you have deliciously slashy subtext in the relationship between these two boys which is so obvious that even some official reviews basically called it a love story. (Even though the film is really so much more than just that.)
Okay, enough babble...
I hope the following is in accordance with the rules, I do bear some boy-touchy goodness after all.
I would like to introduce to you a German film called Before The Fall (German title: Napola - Elite für den Führer) that opens in New York and Chicago on October 7th. (For further dates and cities please visit the website.)
Germany, 1942. The Hitler regime is at the peak of its political and military power. Seventeen-year-old Friedrich Weimer, from the Berlin working-class district of Wedding, is a gifted boxer. Thanks to his talent, he receives an offer to study at an elite National-Political School, the NAPOLA of Allenstein, which trains the future leaders of the German Reich. Friedrich sees this as the chance of a lifetime to free himself from the restrictions of his class and enrolls in the school, which is located in an old castle, against the will of his parents. There, in a disconcerting world dominated by harsh Nazi discipline, he experiences both fierce rivalry and unexpected camaraderie - until a barbarous raid against escaped prisoners of war and his growing friendship with the quiet and sensitive Albrecht Stein, the son of a high-ranking official, force him to make an important decision, one that will also mark the end of his youth.
Even if you might feel reluctant to watch a movie taking place during the time of the Nazi regime in Germany or wonder how such a movie could ever be slashy, you might well give this film a chance because it is not - in no way whatsoever - what you would expect of a typical film that deals with Nazi Germany.
You see these two boys and their very personal experiences with the system and it is through these boys that you become aware of the inhumanity of the Nazi regime. Sometimes I had the feeling that part of the message of the film would work anytime anyplace because the film shows what a system based on oppression, what any kind of oppression actually can do to you as an individual; what it can do to you when who you are does not conform to the ideology and rules of those in charge.
In addition to that you have deliciously slashy subtext in the relationship between these two boys which is so obvious that even some official reviews basically called it a love story. (Even though the film is really so much more than just that.)
Okay, enough babble...