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luigival:
Thanks everybody for the thoughts on the subject.
I do agree with you when you're stating the two stories are very much different, and I clearly pointed out that in my original posts, but it's the mixed feelings that this combination of a great friendship bond, music and scenarios that makes me feel a strong relationship between the two movies. But maybe it's only my very personal point of view that makes me create these parallelisms.
Will try to look for Summer Storm: thanks for your suggestions.
Luigi

luigival:
Yesterday I came across an Israeli movie of 2001, "Yossi and Jagger". The synopsis reads like this:

Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in an IDF position on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in.
Yossi, the company commander, is an introvert guy and largely a man-of-the-system. Jagger, the platoon commander, is an open and much more liberated guy. He is the star of the company. Yossi is determined to keep their love in secret. Whereas, Jagger, who is about to finish the service, believes that Yossi should leave the army with him. Shortly before departing for a dangerous ambush, the tension between the lovers gets high almost explosive.
Yossi & Jagger portrays in a courageous, genuine, amusing and sometines painful fashion the complicated and sensative topic of "gays in the military". It also portrays the tragic structure of life of young Israelis today. The film presents an enchanting ensemble of young men and women that were supposed, in this time of their lives, to dance, study and love. Instead, due to the mandatory army service and the complicated situation in the region, they have to devote their most beautiful years to their country, to be soldiers, to kill and get killed.
In Yossi & Jagger you can find a chef who finds comfort in cooking a gourmet cuisine, a soldier who believes in reincarnation, and two young women who try to survive in a men's world. By showing the apparently small details of the commanders' and soldiers' lives, the film creators emphasize the distorted situation in which these men and women are forced to live and die.

A small production movie, but really another good film, capable to touch with arguments that had never been told so clearly before. Yossi is the Ennis counterpart in this case, while Jagger fits quite well the role of Jack. And also in this case the story ends very sadly: it's life, or better, war in this case that comes along taking the decision that Yossi was unable to take.
Anyone seen it?
Luigi

moremojo:

--- Quote from: luigival on April 10, 2006, 01:54:46 pm ---Anyone seen it?
Luigi

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Yes, I've seen "Yossi & Jagger". I'm sorry to say that I didn't care much for it, finding the characters and their story underdeveloped. The film certainly had some curiosity value for me, being an Israeli film and depicting the lives of gay soldiers. That was interesting to read that it was based on a true story--didn't know that.

Scott

luigival:
 Yes, I've seen "Yossi & Jagger". I'm sorry to say that I didn't care much for it, finding the characters and their story underdeveloped.
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Right Scott, the story was a bit underdeveloped as the movie as a whole only lasts 70 minutes: one of the shortest full feature films I can remember of.
Nevertheless there are scenes like the final one when Yaeli, the girl who desperately loved Jagger (hoping to be loved by him in return), and Yossi, who was actually Jagger's lover, are visiting Jagger's parents after his death. Scenes like these do make the public think about life and the perception of truth.
What is true and what is false in life? Most often truth is what we want to believe (like in Yaeli's case), even though reality is a completely different thing.
Luigi

moremojo:

--- Quote from: luigival on April 10, 2006, 03:36:37 pm ---What is true and what is false in life? Most often truth is what we want to believe (like in Yaeli's case), even though reality is a completely different thing.
Luigi

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Hi, Luigi--

Yes, the ending certainly had a poignant flavor, and offers some interesting parallels with "Brokeback Mountain", in that both stories deal with characters living much of their lives hiding integral components of their personalities from larger view. There is another mirroring between Yossi and Ennis in that both men harbor these all-important relationships as secret even unto the end. I think an implicit critique of the 'machismo' mentality can be gleaned from the treatment of both characters, and that is certainly another area where "Yossi & Jagger" accrues value.

Regards,
Scott

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