Suicide Room (Poland: 2011): Run! It’s the Internet!

Suicide Room (2011)

While the premise is interesting and the performances by the leads are strong, it is just too difficult to empathize with the characters in Suicide Room, Jan Komasa’s film about a troubled teen who withdraws to his room. Hikikomori isn’t actually a social problem in Poland that I’m aware of, and I think the director passed over several more interesting stories to theorize on what it would be like if it were. A wealthy, good looking teen throwing it all away might be arresting to watch, if only the protagonist’s most dramatic act for most of the film wasn’t to hide out at home.
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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 8 Recap

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 8

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 8

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link (lol) to Kuda’s site and watch for yourself? (Note: I will activate the link when Kuda’s site comes back up)

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Where the Lovesickos are

Pealesview visitor map, May 19, 2015

Pealesview visitor map, May 19, 2015

Missing a few of the regular visitors from the Southern Cone, Scandinavia and Korea, but I wanted to share what happens when I post a Love Sick update. Sure, this isn’t where all the inter fans are, and it’s really only a small subset interested in reading summaries in English, but it is fairly representative of who is drops by whenever I have a Love Sick post up. Lovsickos, this IS the map you made today in seven hours. I don’t know who you are, but I salute your persistence in following along with me. I’m impressed, actually.

Tell No One (Italy: 2012): Coming Out, Italian Style

come-non-detto-e1342776572599-600x392A classic Italian-style comedy, Ivan Silvestrini’s Tell No One focuses on contemporary attitudes toward homosexuality through one man’s attempt to either come out to his family on his last night in Rome or risk having his lover do it for him. While it is consistently funny, there isn’t enough new to the story to push the film out of the average zone.

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Silent Youth (Germany: 2012): The start of something big, or just a bad date?

Martin Bruchmann and Josef Mattes

What would happen if two people started a journey of discovery and just didn’t want to ever talk to each other?  As far as “first encounter” movies go, Silent Youth is very low key, but audacious in its own way, creating awkward silences where we normally expect bonding.

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