What's the film really about?

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2006)

The Subject of what the film is really about is, in my opinion, fascinating. The scenery adds to the beautifully told love story and the performances are praiseworthy, but it leaves that question still unanswered. I had read that the film was about 'impossible love" and not actually about the romance between two 'guys' and thought this was just a marketing scheme. Having watched it, though, I must say that it touches some issues about love that are so universal that the fact the two lovers are the same sex becomes secondary, if at all relevant. The sources of the impossibility are many-fold: besides being two young men, there are family ties, social acceptance and economic and cultural background. Who can say which one is strongest? Roughly ten human beings have their lives limited in many aspects, including in their happiness and their very humanness, and I thought the film asks us: "what does society gain from this?"