Straight Story
Straight Story
| 21 December 2006 (USA)
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This film is about an upside down world, where being homosexual is considered "normal" and heterosexual is considered "not normal".

Reviews
LastingAware The greatest movie ever!
Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Veldrin Apparently yes as this movie plainly demonstrates. The intention of the filmmaker is obvious I think. As pointed out by several other reviewers, by inverting a situation where society - or rather the reactionary movement - condemns from a moral point of view a certain subculture, the film tries to establish the notion that morality - at least where sexual identity is concerned - is based upon a convention as arbitrary as the next. Which is smart. Unfortunately their chosen method to accomplish said goal is to present this fictional inverted world with all the ridicule they can master - and they do so admirably. I say unfortunately because ridicule is transfered back to the original institutions rather than validation been attributed to the subculture. So everything is invalid, tradition is ridiculous and, oh yeah, the subculture itself too - if it aspires to validation and recognition. And this argument finally transcends the rather dull debate of morality in sexually driven social institutions. I will go as far as saying that after this, every film created to promote homosexuality can officially be categorized as part of the reactionary movement too. Applause.
johnangelo70 I laughed the whole time while there was a tragic element into it. Like the old Greek tragedies. It was about time for someone to come out with a movie like this and remind a society like the Greek one that is time to wake up and be with the rest of the world. No wonder it was the best seller movie of the year, everyone went to see it including the closeted cases with their wives. A culture moves a step forward with bold moves like this like releasing such movies. The acting could have been better but the reality is this movie hit the nail in the had. Had the people talking about what is normal after all. Therefore this movie is groundbreaking, i highly recommend it. In Canada where i live gay coouples can marry, adopt children, go to the supermarket holding hands,talk to the kids' teacher and this is normal. It is time for Greece to move to that direction as well. A democratic society goes ahead not with the things that devides us, but with the things that unite us. Kudos to the ceators of the movie.
ozdavid At first the idea of of a world where "gay" is normal and "straight" is "perverted" seemed silly but interesting.A few minutes into the film you start to think "why am I wasting a minute of my life on this rubbish?". The story is so contrived and the alleged acting by everyone is so wooden it almost defies description. It's been a long time since I have seen such poor performances.The movie has no idea what it wants to be - social comment? comedy ? farce ? drama? and fails miserably in every aspect.The ending says it all for the whole storyline - a complete and total disappointment. I really think that all involved should be ashamed of this abysmal piece of cinema and I doubt if many involved would want to show it on their CV for future work.
Michalis Hadjisimou This film aims to showing the discrimination against homosexual people. The writers show a reflection of the current world were straight people are the minority and are considered to be perverts. A bit of exaggeration in the way that straight people were treaded in this fictional world, something that does not reflect in the real one where gay people have a lot more rights. Great idea and generally a good movie but with some scenes of poor acting from "Sofia" and "Yiannis". It is though a nice film and it is worthy for anyone to watch it just to watch the writers' perspective supported by the great roles of "Petros" and "Stefanos". Enjoy.