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Gay Days (Hebrew) (Documentary)

By Golu
Gay Days is a documentary that dives into how the LGBTQ+ community really started to find its voice in Israel. Back in 1985, there were literally only three gay men who were officially out in the whole country, but by 1998, that number had jumped to 3,000. It’s a look at this super short, intense, and dramatic window of time where Israel went through one of the fastest and most vibrant social revolutions at the end of the 20th century. What’s wild is that this whole shift happened without any blood being spilled; instead, it was this rare team-up between professors, sex workers, trans people, singers, barbers, and even military officers. The director, Yair Qedar, was right there filming it all for his own newspaper called  The Pink Times . He uses some really cool old footage, personal stories, and his own private diary to piece together this energetic and bittersweet musical mix of a movie. The film follows Qedar’s own path as a kid from middle Israel who moved to Tel Aviv in...
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Sex, Politics and Cocktails

By Golu
Now this is one movie about which I am confused as to whether I liked it or not. The movie has been directed in a very unconventional manner. The story is very simple. Unable to marry his girlfriend, Filmmaker Sebastian finds himself 30-years old and never in love. On his quest to finding..."The One!", Sebastian turns to friend/tour guide Daria who introduces Sebastian to her sandbox of gay co-horts and the adventure of his life! Here starts the the movie going into flashback scenes about every individual friend of Daria talking about every possible gay sex form. They all go to a big Hollywood party and our straight Sebastian finds himself navigating through the uncharted waters of Hollywood, sexual politics and getting trapped between Mr. Big Time and...Toilet Man? Ultimately Sebastian and the Nig Hollywood man are shown making out together for looooooooong time and being happy.

The movie wasn't bad but there was nothing very special about it either. It didn't bore me but neother did it tell me what was the whole purpose of the movie. Just bringing infacts from lives of few individuals, throw their story together and finally make your straight character turn gay in search of true love; all this got me confusing. From acting point of view, characters were all good and fitted the bill.

Nothing extraordinary as I said earlier, but can be seen if you dont have anything else. It wont bore you. (5.5/10)
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