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Romeos (2011)
Good idea & actors, weak content; gives a simplified idea of transgenderness
Nice little, never boring love and sex movie, trying to convey a serious topic. Nice to be seen for one time. With sexy actors in often sexy action and a funny, over sexy, up to exciting content. There are only few seriously inspiring or aspiring parts: (potential spoiler!) e.g. the voip sessions and the scene with the little sister. Otherwise trivial, shallow or fake.
Bads:
Extremely cliché rich concerning the following clichés: overly macho-like, violent and homophobic Southern Europeans; homophobic Southern Germans (Bavarians); overly mobbingful young people; sexist clichés in young people, i.e. "all girls are nice and sweet, all boys are nasty and mean"; gay man have sex with each other always and everywhere. All that is not reality and is tiresome to watch.
All people in the movie look like super models or at least pretty attractive (in a porno this would be good, a "normal" movie is only rendered incredible). And yes: The average German and also the average Southern European does not look like a model.
Rich in crypto-pornography, i.e. something pretends to be non-pornographic, though it's actually not, e.g. if in a movie all people are super-hot with no content-wise reason; normally to be seen in most mainstream US-American movies.
The movie shows the life of the roles as consisting only of party, sex, leisure time and a little bit of sleep ("fun porn"), although the protagonist lives in a dorm for civilian servicers/nurses, and I was curious what problems or difficulties may occur in his everyday work because of his transgernderness. That again are elements of crypto-pornography and unrealism.
Too much "deus ex machina", i.e. incredible coincidences that are used to support and promote the action; also the cliché elements are particularly used in this way, what the authenticity of the whole movie suffers from.
The precarious situations the protagonist runs into because of his transgenderness are also mostly incredible. Real transgenders are just much better in hiding their secrets.
The end is no end, the movie just breaks off, and additionally in the best moment, to make the missing of the end dramaturgically particularly meaningful, a true content-wise meaning though (for me) is not recognizable.
Gives a simplified (misleading) idea of transgenderness.
Goods:
The residual of the accustomed girl-like dealing with his female best friend from former times is well depicted by the protagonist.
His reactions to the first positive responses from other boys to his new male appearance are well depicted by the protagonist.
The female breasts (of the boy) look super-extremely real.
In general, the actors do a good job.
The basic ideas of the movie are super (would be great, if they would be realized more well in the future).
The depictions of the actors are per se good and entertaining to see.
Gives a simplified (easy to understand) idea of transgenderness.