Keilu ein mahar

This movie will keep you riveted until the very last moment. It is compelling, deep and emotional. It's brilliant because it's so true and touches on the very realities that are part of our world, which are harder to accept. It's almost like this movie came to wake us up to the reality that we try to avoid. I heard a person in the audience behind me say how thankful she is that this is brought to light because it reminds her of times in her life. The filmography is also brilliant. The angles in which the camera is placed and the story it chooses to tell, left us talking about it for days. The Director did an unbeatable job!

Terrific and powerful film! Evoking strong feeling as you can see in the reviews! You will either love it or you will hate it! But for sure it a film that you won't forget! I couldn't sleep after watching it! The director Nitzan Gilady has done an mesmerising Job! Really out standing! I felt connected to the characters in such a very special way. They will stay with me for a long time! The images, the music (Offer Nissim is a genius) wow!!! I saw the film in San Diego and the audience seemed rapt! The was silence after the screening. It seems like no one can talk. And then during the Q@A you've learned how it made indelible impact on the crowd!

At the moment that I write this review, there are eight earlier reviews, of which no less than seven rank it a 10 out of 10, all with jubilant texts and such hyperboles as "brilliant", "extraordinary", "terrific", and even twice "masterpiece". I'm seriously dumbfounded: did they really watch the same movie as I did?!? Because it's (in my humble and down to earth opinion) simply terrible. It's totally uninvolving, repetitive, tedious, and my 4,95 euro to stream it were the only reason that I sat the whole thing out.

There is a total lack of any narrative, it's just 85 minutes of watching three persons having sex, smoke, using all sorts of drugs and totally flipping over it, having sex again (and again and again), screaming and yelling at each other, and behaving as erratic as possible. All this in the uninspiring setting of a crummy apartment. Main character Guy (Israel Ogalbo) is at least remotely sympathetic, but his BFF Joy (Moran Rosenblatt) is extremely obnoxious and completely hysterical, every scene with her made my ears pop. And Dan as the mysterious outsider is just weird and creepy. Towards the end something (meant to be) horrendous happens, but it was so amateurishly staged (so you see her, so she's - whoosh! - gone!) that the effect was simply ludicrous.

There's a lot of gay sexual content (being gay, I admit that's what attracted me in the first place), but it was all way less provocative than the synopsis suggested: it's a lot of bare bottoms, but that's about it, so even that didn't make this experience any more bearable. The end suited the rest perfectly: Guy waggling naked and in some kind of drugs-induced stupor along the street to whatever profound concluding moral the makers may have had in mind. I heaved a deep sigh of relief and exasperated waggled to my bed.

Wow! I have watched the film a week ago and it still stays with me! I couldn't fall a sleep for hours after watching. I wanted to call my kids see that they are all ok. To talk to them. The film totally moved me! It had a big impact! Still trying to analyse why. I think it is so well done. Everything about it! The directing, the camera work (wow)! The acting! (Israel Ogalbo give a memorable performance! Itching all of the actors are just fab!). This film should definitely get a wide distribution! It must! It should be out there so people can be informed of the danger of excessive use of drags. I salute the filmmaker and who ever was part of this film!

The single biggest problem with this film is that these are incredibly dislikable people so caught up in their love of drugs that little else matters to them. The only interesting thing the film has going for it is the tension it creates with the character "Dan" who we the audience wonder might or might not be the shooter from the Gay Pride parade. The plot becomes further muddled over the issue of why Dan cannot "go home." He offers some lame excuse that his friends cannot find out he is gay. All three -- who seem incredibly codependent -- take drugs and more drugs, and by the end, we, the audience, are so fed up with all of them that we really could care less what happens to any of them. I'm not really certain what the director's purpose was here. Whatever it was, it was lost in this muddled mess.