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I finally watched a real copy. The DVD arrived from eBay and I sat and watched the movie.
It's dated, trite, has ghastly fashions and hairstyles, impossible adult attitudes and it made me sob my heart out.
I watched the movie as Kim. I so wanted my own Bo.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I've watched it a couple of times. Blurry-eyed with tears doesn't begin to describe it.
I agree it's a bit trite, and the adult attitudes are implausible. But I *love* the hairstyles and fashions: they remind me so much of my own (later) teens.
I think it's probably one of my favourite movies, albeit a bit of a guilty pleasure because in many technical ways it is just so bad ...
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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I missed the fashions. I was a teenager too early. I tried them out at university, but somehow they never worked.
The budget must have been all of £10/7/11d 3/4. But thye look of joy in the faces of Bo and Kim.... they must be able to act very well.
Kim's father..... oh lord.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I may be thick, but I found the story line hard to follow and the ending unconvincing. And the colour is so incredibly awful.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Edit: - the colour a n d the lighting
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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I don't think there was a story! It looks like a low budget low scrip movie made for a limited market. But it still made me sob. The ending? Well, it was hardly an ending. Hardly a beginning either
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Interestingly, the colour didn't worry me - my family has a lot of colour slide photos dating from the 1960s and 1970s which have colour-faded in much the same way, so I'm probably predisposed to see it as appropriate (and, indeed, perhaps adding a verisimilitude that the movie otherwise lacks).
Actually, I'm often intrigued by films that employ unusual colour palettes - "Acla" (La Discesa di Aclà a Floristella) which uses sulphurous and earth-tones almost throughout, and "In a Glass Cage" (Tras el cristal) where the colour scheme of pale-and-blues is relieved only by the red of blood, and of a symbolic coat, are classic examples.
(BTW, Both of these are very brutal movies, and I wouldn't suggest anyone watches them unless they have extremely strong stomachs - in any event, I'm not sure Acla is available any longer, as it featured a small amount of prepubescent male nudity.)
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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It's possible the DVD has been somehow remastered. The colours were pretty true to outdoor life
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Certainly sounds as though the current DVD's have been remastered or restored. Oh dear, that means it's a movie I'm going to have to buy again ... I hate it when that happens!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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I was lucky. I bought on eBay a US region one and my DVD player will play it. European region got up to £30! Mine was £10 include postage
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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