Wednesday, July 18, 2012
A DIFFERENT TAKE
Today's gay film was Tom Kalin's "audacious" take on the Leopold Loeb thrill murder case
This is an avant garde film about a factual event so well known, well less so now, I suppose> that nothing new could be said. And he says it.
It is a good film about a vile and disgusting event.
It is not actually a gay film in the gay pride sense but it is a film about at least one gay man and his partner who may or may not have really been interested in the relationship as much as the thrills and notoriety.
As killers they are totally incompetent. It takes no time at all for them to be caught and then spill their own beans. But that was part of the deal. To be found out. To be outrageous.
The film is black and white and uses modern tropes to carry the story. Out takes from the real trial are also used. Clarence Darrow defended this case and it was thought a miracle that he got them off without the death penalty.
Jews. Queers. Pedophiles. All accusations of the press. Murder? Well, yes, but they should be killed for the other stuff too.
I liked it but I don't want to see it again. That makes it a 3 out of Netflix5.
