Walt Walters I'm giving this a 2, because it was a great movie to start out with! Sure, it was slow, and the director was gratuitous with the nudity and with the side story of the main character's swimming aspirations. However, I feel completely cheated.First off, neither of the gay men get a decent ending. What really grinds my gears, however, is that the one who gives up his gay lifestyle and goes back to his girlfriend gets to live, while the one who proudly tells his parents he won't change ends up dead. By the hands of a homophobe who gets the crap beat out of him earlier- on by his own boyfriend. So sure, the one gets to live, but now he's caused his ex-boyfriend to be heartbroken, by breaking up with him and not telling him why exactly, but he inadvertently causes his death. The only person who gets what they want in this film is the non-flushed- out character of the mother, who tells her son he needs to break up with his boyfriend and go back to the girlfriend.Basically, what I've learned from this film is that I should never visit Poland. I might fall in love with someone, just for him to break up with me, and then I get murdered by people he beat up.I honestly thought this movie was going to be great when I was about halfway through it. However, that ending ruined the entire film for me, and not just because I'm tired of the dead-gay-trope. I'm mad about the way the director went about doing it. It wasn't stylish. There was no mourning the dead gay character. It was tasteless and I'll never watch anything by this director again.

jdbailey-78191 Spoiler Alert - A film school quality product. A film about an incestuous mother, and a pathetic girlfriend who settles for life with a gay man. A cookie cutter film in which one of the gay characters has to die from gay bashing, and the other has to live an unbearable existence because he's too weak to grow a pair of balls, and get on with life as a gay man. A film in which the only character that has any self-respect is the one they kill off. We can't have a well-adjusted character upsetting all the artsy, doom and gloom. Maybe one day the writer, and so many other writers, will develop enough talent to write a movie with an original story line.

bananamate In many post communist countries, where people used to have lives lined up and where the one who was standing out was the enemy of the society - such perception still exists. The proof is that in several countries lately, the constitution was adjusted to a union between a man and a woman solely. Poland is a very religious country and related prejudice against sexual minority is certainly projected into the questioning men which keeps them in the closet - such as in the example of a main character Kuba who is exploring not only the water of professional swimming facility but also his sexuality. In a way, he represents the society's ideal of a man: if one behaves as a male, has a woman (or women) around, then he is fine. Even though, deep inside, he might be feeling differently. On the other side, the character Mihal represents a more progressive minority person since he is out to himself and has a close relationship with his mother. Unfortunately, sometimes the visible guys such Mihal gain more attention from the radical group members as well. Other characters portray misconception, stereotypes and misunderstandings about homosexuality – which are still present in the contemporary post-communist societies, such as in the statement (about homosexuality) of Kuba's girlfriend, "Why do you do this to me?"

robert-tomas I don't know, where to start, that's how misguided this film is. First, we are in Warsaw, a sophisticated European city in the year 2012. And yet, the confused young man has never been on the Internet or to one of many gay bars in Warsaw. Neither one of the protagonists comes from country bumpkin families and yet they are somehow unable to have an adult conversations with,their families. Then , of course the young, able- bodied man cannot go to work to either pay for an abortion or child support for an unwanted child with the by-then ex-girlfriend - instead he throws away a chance for self-realization. Bullshit I say, since I have managed to come out of the closet in then- Communist Poland with social mores dictated by the catholic clergy 28 years ago in that very same Warsaw. Btw. My ex-girlfriend got pregnant too. Sôooooo, in short, what a cowardly throwback.....terribly misguided film that will only scare and confuse some young, questioning men. By the way, killing the only well-adjusted gay man in the film really adds an insult to injury.