Sunday, August 31, 2014
Dancer from the dance
It is very difficult to make a film which appears to be a genuine documentary but is not.
I suppose that I ruined this for you but still. That is one of the many victories of Getting Go: The Go Go Doc Project
A young videographer finds a subject in the life of a go go dancer.
Before long he becomes part of that life. Or the dancer becomes part of his. Whatever.
Art becomes life becomes art again.
This is a beautifully rendered film which succeeds on so many levels, including surprise, that it is hard to describe it.
In the process of filming the dancer, the filmer falls for the guy and visa versa. Objectivity gives way to a relationship.
Or does it?
Another thing about this film which, of course is gay, is that it shows things I have never seen before in a film. I have seen them in real life back in the day. I notice they are still going on. The life in the bars and discos. The 4AM life, the separate community of people who live there.
The star is the kid who was in Were The World Mine, and is produced by the same people. The go go dancer is a very complicated guy and the whole thing seems so real that I wanted to enter the story with them. That is the whole point of a film, yes?
Can you tell that I liked this very much? Since I bought the DVD (you cannot rent it) will see it again. And again.
That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.