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The end was crazy didn't make sense to me it made me think about the whole film for few days trying to find a logical answer and I think it depressed me ,always or most of the time gay films end up in sad ends ,I wanted this film to end with a happy ending , good actors , the actor playing the doctor impressed me ...a lot !

When William Friedkin directed 'Cruising'back in 1980, he put a disclaimer at the beginning of his film saying that it was no way intended to describe the gay community in its whole, but only part of it. (Probably in order to avoid hurting certain sensitivities, or maybe to avoid a law suit..) Anyway, his film, despite of having been labeled homophobic by some people, was much less one-dimensional and had a thousand times more substance that this French on-screen garbage, which does definitely not take such precautions: it pushes all the clichés to the extreme limit, and is definitely an insult to any viewer who has some brains. All the gay characters in this nonsense obscene caricature are uniformly depicted as a totally amoral and degenerate population: the director wants to give the impression that any of them is capable of the worse at any given time, postulating so the equation gay=potential murderer.There isn't the tiniest trace of any attempt to give this issue a balanced treatment. Of course, given this situation, it is definitely not difficult to guess how it ends, although I will not say it here... Act to this an absolutely awful acting, an over-dramatized music (probably to fill the lack of any coherent plot)and you can have THE perfect description of a total and premeditated bias, reinforced by the fact that it has been broadcast on prime-time, moreover on a public French TV-channel, this probably in order to 'educate' people the way the new right-wing French government wants them to be. To sum up, this is a pure waste of time for any even slightly educated person and a must-see for brainless homophobes.

The basic problem - the unrealism of the love story. Second - too many holes. Not the last - the end who seems be exercise of wake up of viewer but, in fact, it is the only reasonable one. Sure, beautiful and nice crafted in many scenes, exploring, in correct manner, social problems , so familiar in many senses. But is it enough ? Maybe not. It can be a form of exploration of small details of loneliness, sexual attraction, falls of a family , a murder case with few traits of Basic Instinct. But, unfortunatelly, not more.

What people dnt get was that Eric and Emmanuel seems like already built they're relationship before the crime.. Remember that Rose became a mother figure for Eric and she has the same job with Emmanuel. Although its not established and clear but if you will connect everything it looks like that is the plot hence the shooting at the very end. Eric actually and Emmanuel knows the crime so they just chose to end their lives. Sad but i enjoyed it.