The Killers - Backstage [OT] #47: NOTHING!!!!!!!!

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:01 PM

Perfect

Did I win again

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:03 PM

I think you did. Damn you

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:04 PM

I'm just that good

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:08 PM

Just 'cause I was away for 3 days

I'll catch you next time

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:08 PM

So this thread is your thread...umm nope

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:09 PM

You'll see

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:13 PM

Sure

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:15 PM

I'm winning already

(we'll probably spend this whole thread arguing about who's gonna win and end up tied

)

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:19 PM

I so see that happening

No Ken today?

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:25 PM

I don't know where he is

I want him to show up 'cause I sent him a link to a movie download and I want him to watch it and let me know what he thinks

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:34 PM

What movie?

No going to Windsor

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:38 PM

It's a German short movie (like 20 minutes long) called "Freund (The Whiz Kids)". Here's the synopsis: The problems with teenage hormones rear their head again in this intriguing work, as we encounter two sixteen-year-old boys who spend their days wrestling, racing and just playing games with each other. Only the game of hide-and-seek they play is one of sexual orientation, given shy Johannes lusts after the physical affection of Marco, only with Marco straight, such carnal desires must remain hidden.
Or must they? As Marco plays with his sexuality, one minute appearing heterosexual, whilst the next moment giving off signals that can only but leave the most finely tuned gaydar confused! But then, so too is the viewer. Given one is never quite sure what is happening in this surreal short, even to the point of questioning whether Marco could be the product of Johannes' imagination.
And yet it is the relationship between the boys that is the mainstay of this work. For whether such is more fantasy, than reality, it is one that draws you in, only in the knowledge that the growing closeness between the two can only but lead to a series of awkward questions being raised.
To that end, Martin Kiefer as Johannes and Marlon Kittel as Marco aptly display the emotions that go hand-in-hand with the sexual transition of life, in a work that is a refreshing, if at times perplex variation on the theme of adolescent sexual awakening. Then again, this equally marked a graduation piece from Krüger; one that went on to receive the Silver Lion Award for Best Film Short at the 58th Film Festival in Venice in September 2001.

I saw it today and I really liked it

I love short movies. I haven't had patience for regular ones lately

**Talkative One** · 12-16-2008, 03:46 PM

Sounds good and I'm sure he'll like it

**silver screens** · 12-16-2008, 03:48 PM

I can send the link to you if you want

It's tiny, just 170MB.