To Play or To Die

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Summary: Promising Cinema
Review: Impressive movie with wonderfull performance of the young leading actor. Beautifully visualized in a poetic and convincing style. Promising cinema of this Dutch director.

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Summary: Strange & Depressing
Review: Most gay people know what it is like to be ridiculed, ostracized and bullied in school, and can therefore empathize with the movie's lead character. Most gay people also know how difficult it was to come to terms with their sexual orientation, and can therefore understand, although not condone, the lead bully's behavior. However, the ending was so unnecessarily depressing. When the movie ended, my boyfriend and I were shaking our heads, and commenting on how weird it was.

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Summary: To play or to die
Review: This is a bad movie...in my research i have found that there is a 150 minute version. I feel that we as the public should be able to see it. I feel that any other version is bad...very bad!

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Summary: To play or to die
Review: This is a bad movie...in my research i have found that there is a 150 minute version. I feel that we as the public should be able to see it. I feel that any other version is bad...very bad!

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Summary: There is NO English audio track. It is entirely in Swedish
Review: This movie is entirely in Swedish with English subtitles. It is incorrectly listed as havng an English audio track.

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Summary: Don't buy it. Homophobic in the worst way.
Review: Warning: In this movie a gay teenager fails in a play for a classmate, then dies from an unmotivated accident, falling down the stairs. Be warned: no sympathy for human nature in this nasty film. Additional oddity--the classmate, supposedly a tough, is cast to look "effeminate."

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Summary: Simplistic
Review: What is most surprizing about this short (50 min) film is that it was made in 1991. One would have thought that by then we had gone beyond the 'pre-Maurice' stage of sociological development. E.M. Forster's book could not be published in his lifetime because it's ending did not involve imprisonment or death for the gay couple! This film would have been much more interesting and complex if the boy's love-object could have overcome his school-boy homophobia--even if in private--and there was at least a moment of joy. But this is simplistic: there is no joy and not one moment of understanding for anyone. It does, however, beg the question: is there still rampant and dangerous homophobia in schools today? I think we all know the answer to that one, Matthew Shepard.