I don't know how to tell people such a story. The previous night, Berlin was still a holy place for sexual freedom. The obscene carnival approached the excitement. Today, the Gestapo’s butcher knife has been placed on the necks of homosexuals, and the ruthless end has come quickly. The thin Jewish youth Max and his lover Rudy fell into the clutches of the Nazis. In the stuffy train heading to the concentration camp, the soldiers cruelly tortured Rudy and forced Max to participate in the violence, and even to prove that he was not homosexual, he had sex with the corpse of a Jewish woman, all in order to survive and to obtain a yellow pentagon representing the Jews. The star, rather than the pink five-pointed star that represents homosexuality, is almost crazy. The tormented Max gains life, hides his nature, and distorts his soul. Damon, who is in the same compartment, is a staunch homosexual, even if the prison uniform is marked with "sexual perversion", he has stubborn self-esteem. Day after day, under the cyclical movement of stones back and forth, under this monotonous and devastating mechanical torture, under this piece of scorched earth filled with death breath, unconquerable love breeds. Under the scorching sun, in a short interval of work. Standing side by side, he and him, two young bodies with naked torso. He couldn't communicate with his eyes, couldn't make contact with his body, and he had sex with him in complete silence. Use words, imagination, and telepathy. Sweat, panting, splash of life.
I don't know how to end this story. There is nothing wrong with the breeding of love, even if it was once pleasure-oriented or insensitive, love will emerge from the ground. I really think the name "BENT" is very good. It is a story about humanity struggle, humanity reconstruction, and humanity return, although it is a cruel and almost hysterical story. At the end of the film, before the Nazi officer shot Damon with a gun, he touched his eyebrows with his fingers and motioned to Max to show him that he was telling him I love you, I LOVE YOU. In the end, Max took off the yellow five-pointed star and put on the pink five-pointed star and walked towards the high-voltage power grid. That is already a firm heart, a loving heart, a broken heart, peacefully heading towards death.
The unbearable emotions in life must be endured with life.
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