Romeos ...anders als du denkst! (2011)
Romeos (2011)
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Language: German | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama | Germany
DVDRip | AVI | 640 x 352 | XviD @ 1018 Kbps | MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 96 min | 725 Mb
Language: German | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama | Germany
A transgendered 20 year old gets swept up in the Cologne gay scene, and struggles to reveal his deepest secret after meeting the masculine boy of his dreams in this compassionate tale of sexual awakening. Lukas is a pre-op transgendered individual who was born female. Placed in a residential hall filled with female nurses as part of his community service, Lukas is struggling with the complexities of social acceptance when his friend Ine introduces him to the local gay scene. In no time Lukas catches the eye of Fabio, a handsome, outgoing guy possessing every ounce of confidence Lukas lacks. Meanwhile, Lukas realizes that in order to be truly accepted by Fabio, he must somehow find a means of revealing his most intimate secret.
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I've literally just returned from the screening of this movie and it's in my opinion one of the best titles out there dealing with the topic of transsexuality and even homosexuality.
What is important and what this movie does so well, is dealing with the topic so problematic for any transgendered person that was ever attracted to someone of the same gender; which is, how to explain to others that being attracted to a woman doesn't make you a man - but feeling like a man does. Rick Okon does an amazing job - up to googling him I couldn't find out whether he is male or female in real life (the perfectly done breasts confused me) and I'm ashamed that I was focusing on this so much because it just shows once more how binary-minded we are about sex and gender, even though this topic is personal to me. However - for not being transgendered himself, the actor really gets the pain, the frustration, everything that is behind the feeling of not fitting in such a basic category system.
I was also pleased with the development of other characters. In a love story, a view-point (and actually the whole life) of someone's best friend can get easily overlooked and I like how they dealt with it. The role of Fabio was also great and the scene with the trans-girl singing was just beautiful.
Basically, if this movie would go on for another two hours, I would keep staring.IMDB Reviewer
Romeos ...anders als du denkst! (2011)
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