Bent (DVD, 2003)

This is the best contemporary WWII movie I've critiqued! I'd watch anything with Sirs Ian McKellen & Mick Jagger in it. Jagger as Greta is a very convincing transvestite during the beginning of Hitler's anti-GLBT book burning & human genocidal round ups. The 1 hr 44min gay, transvestite, and transsexual men holocaust movie is the best (non)documentary portrayal of historical WWII facts. McKellen's use of the word "Fluffs" for gay men is hysterical & probably historical as well, of the early 1930's Berlin lingo, where GLBT life once flourished before Hitler. Jagger's song in drag that begs to know, 'will we be remembered when we're gone' is chilling & unforgettable.

Clive Owen pretends to be Jewish rather than gay because Lothaire Bluteau convinces him, as they walk along like chattel in Nazi guarded rows, that being Gay is the worst thing to be, according to the Nazi's. The lowest of low on the human Nazi totem pole: Gay. Bluteau chooses to out himself & wears the gay man signifying pink triangle. Owen wears the yellow one pretending to be Jewish, instead of gay. Owen keeps proclaiming throughout the film, "I'm going to live." As if the yellow triangle will make any difference to Hitler's storm troopers.

One of the most remarkable scenes is when the two men, who are forbidden to speak to each other, let alone touch each other, have verbal sex with one another while standing for three minutes for their so called "break" from carrying rocks from one pile to the next & back again. An activity that is supposed to be so meaningless that it drives them crazy. This verbal sex scene is perhaps one of the truest sex scenes this sexologist has ever witnessed on film~