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...
Captain Muengman finds out on his wedding night that his wife is actually a lady boy who ends up taking his virginity that night and leaves him. He is now assigned to take on a very special mission. On a banana cruise ship habited by many other ladyboys with their leader Golden Flower. Golden Flower wants to kill all men and women in the world so that it can be ruled by queers. To accomplish this mission, Captain Muengman need to aboard the ship which can identify of you are queer or not. So in order to complete the mission Captain Muengman and his navy team must disguise themselves as ladyboys to infiltrate Golden Flower’s hideout. A famous queer director is hired to teach them, who also uses this training opportunity to make a reality show kind of film out of the whole experience. Training concludes, the navy goes on the ship and of course defeats the terrorists.
There are a few other subplots of other characters as well. For example, we see that Captain Muengman's wife actually has a twin sister who is also on the ship to being her brother/sister back to meet their dying father. Not hat this story adds anything, but it just adds an interesting dimension. The training scenes were a bit funny when the director tries to make three macho men act queer. As I mentioned before, none of this is supposed to be taken seriously even for a second. The plot and the whole premise is as ludicrous as it comes but hey at least someone thought out of the box. So I will give it that. Also adding the touch of making a film while training was funny and it somehow worked. There are plenty of scenes where logic is thrown out of the window, but logic was never supposed to be the forte of the film, so it should be excused. Among actors, Captain Muengman stands out and so does the main villain Golden Flower. Everyone else is alright. The ending of the film is in fact funny, although I think we all knew exactly what was going to happen. (3.5/10)
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