Moral Rules (Greek)

This story takes place in 7 acts in a form of a cinematic theater play and is apparently an adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. Set in Greece, the primary story is about two guys exploring their sexuality. The characters of the play display elements that potentially belong to each one of us, from sexual curiosity and promiscuity to fear towards the unknown, and from superficial communication to moral hypocrisy.

The play starts with two friends hanging out and one of them getting naked (which in my mind was an attempt to seduce the other one). We are not told their ages that is supposed to be. The naked guys also shows naked sex videos of himself with a girl which excites the second guy. The first guy asks him to come to his home and maybe they explore more. We then see the first guy seducing a girl and having sex with her. In third act, the two guys are back alone and they both end up having sex but right after that the first guy snubs the second guy asking him to leave telling him not to meet again. Then something happens (which I am not sure) but then some poles find out about this and then a third guy (was he another student or a teacher, I am not sure), ends up repeating the act with the first guy, almost raping him like the first guy did with the second one. In theist act, the two guys come together again and talk out their issues.

The play/movie started off well and the two good looking guys had good chemistry. I was quite surprised to see that both of them were very confident in their skin to display full nudity and still act completely in character. But the dialogues were quite heavy and almost poetic (and not in a good way). To be honest, I am not familiar with the 'Spring Awakening' story, so I am not qualified to comment on the adaptation, but all I can say is t hat as an audience, for me, it started off ell and had my attention. But eventually it just started to fall apart. I wasn't really interested in knowing or understanding anything else besides the scenes between the two main guys. But the whole last 30 minutes or so, just got confusing. I am sure, its mostly because I was only half paying attention and had lost complete interest by this time. (3/10)

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