Word: camped
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...other men. But one night Max picks up the wrong soldier at a club, and the next morning the Gestapo appears at their door. On the run from the S.S. for two years, Max and Rudy are finally captured, and are hustled onto a prison train to the concentration camp at Dachau. After Rudy's brutal death at the hands of their Nazi guards, a traumatized Max manages to get himself classified as a Jew instead of a homosexual in Dachau, where he strikes up a new friendship with Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), another prisoner interned for his homosexuality...
...either entirely of dialogue, or of silent, slow and repetitive motion--there's little action and much less spectacle. And, since most of the movie's lines are delivered either in a hyper-dramatic fashion or in the suppressed, hissing stage whisper forced on the characters in the Nazi camp, it's difficult for the actors to convey much variety in the dramatic register of the dialogue...
...problem is that it's difficult to maintain emotional identification with the main characters while we're having our minds and emotions numbed. For instance, the scenes of Max and Horst at work in the concentration camp--endless vistas of two ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes...
...first lover, Rudy, is almost nonexistent. Webber as Rudy exaggerates the younger man's submissiveness to the point that the character becomes almost infantile--while we sympathize with his helplessness, he's petulant enough to alienate the audience as well as Max. Lothaire Bluteau as Horst, the concentration camp inmate with whom Max finds his first real love, is much the strongest of the leads. Bluteau, perhaps best known to American audiences for the title role in the French Canadian film Jesus of Montreal here reprises that role to a certain degree. As a man martyred for his beliefs...
Although HDS is aware of the possibility of purchasing UFW-approved grapes should a majority of students vote for the second ballot option today, representatives from HDS "haven't made any contact" with Nash-De Camp, said Alexandra McNitt, a project manager with HDS, in a recent e-mail to The Crimson...