Set in 1985, a Russian Neo gothic and surreal cinema, this is a "story of sex and love, rejection and acceptance, passion and depravity," emotions that the producers say are indistinguishable "for anyone pushed to the fringes of society." Described here as 'Outlaws'. Outlaw is bold, ambitious but very confusing and naïve at the same time, to make any sense out of it.
A gay teen boy is struggling with being bullied and his homosexual desires for the bad-boy classmate. A rebellious young girl is vying for the same boy's attention. Their history teacher Nina, has secrets of his own past that continue to haunt him. He advices the gay boy to try and mix with students so as to not stand out. And in parallel, the film keeps switching to the 80's showing is the love affair of this teacher with an army general.
I was quite surprised to see a gay storyline from Russia. The film’s LGBT subject matter is set to attract controversy there, so I am not sure how the movie was perceived in the local market. But, even otherwise, In my opinion, the film is all over the place. You focus really hard to figure out what really is going on in front of you. And I hate these situations where you are watching something for over 30 minutes and you have no freaking idea what you are seeing. Not much makes sense at any point. If you read the summary, you may feel that the film has something to say, but in my opinion this is a very odd and unsatisfying film. Random sex scenes, boring songs, anger, abuse and just mere frustration; this is the kind of film, that I will not advise people to wats their time on. (1/10)
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