Ein Zuhause am Ende der Welt (2004)
25KEin Zuhause am Ende der Welt: Directed by Michael Mayer. With Andrew Chalmers, Ryan Donowho, Asia Vieira, Quancetia Hamilton. A boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend.
“Michaelu0026#39;s Cunninghamu0026#39;s book is so moving I was afraid to be deeply disappointed by the movie adaptation. Although 90 min is barely enough to narrate the story in its emotional complexity, the movie is very faithful to the book, probably because the screenplay is from Cunningham himself. The acting is excellent, and the soundtrack featuring Laura Nyro is beautiful, and if some of the booku0026#39;s interest is lost in translation, it still makes a pretty good movie. I find some detractorsu0026#39; arguments pretty amazing, as if all theyu0026#39;d watched was the trailer. To suggest that after Jules u0026amp; Jim any movie containing a threesome is worthless, that any movie taking place in the 70s-80s is obsolete, that there was too much or not enough sex scenes, or that the AIDS theme is not developed enough, is plain ludicrous. This is not a movie about an era, about homosexuality, or about the AIDS epidemics. This is about (re)creating a place out of time and geography, where the world makes sense (again). A home, in other words. This is about loving another being (or two, since one is never complete, never enough) irrespective of family links, gender, and the established social codes. The characters are struggling to escape the rules to enjoy the u0026quot;big noisy world aroundu0026quot; and find a natural place in it. They are the opposite of stereotypical characters, at least once they are fully revealed to themselves. As for the end, it is not u0026quot;unconclusiveu0026quot;, it is what is called an open ending, and probably in this case the perfect ending, which means the only possible one. My advice: watch it, and read the novel too.”
