Any film with Mick Jagger as a drag queen is worth
the rental price. Watching this filmed play (which has all the
usual problems associated with such efforts) I was reminded of
what a fraud Stephen Speilberg is. Speilberg researched the
holocaust and found the one single story with a happy ending and
gave the world Shindler's List. A generation is growing up with
the message that "yea, a lot of people died but some really
good ones made it out O.K."
Bent is a film/play about the significance of the pink triangle
as well as the yellow Star of David. Every queer should see this
film before they go out and celebrate this month. Pride events
should be much more than another excuse to have a party.
It is also about the systematic dehumanization techniques the
Nazi's used. There is no shrinking here from the truth that most
people chose to not be heros. They lied and they cowered rather
than die. But there is something inside each human being where
humanity can not be further reduced. That is the point where we
are all capable of being heros and choosing to make a statement
of free will in the face of horror. To choose to love a fellow
human being rather than to deny our humanity. In a way, to choose
love over life.
And Jude Law is one cute Nazi!
