"Freier Fall" (2013), anyone? I can't help mentioning another movie at the beginning of this review, as the two movies have more or less the same plot. However, it doesn't mean that those who have watched "Freier Fall" should spare their time on this movie, for "Floating Skyscrapers" has raised a lot of thought-provoking questions.
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My biggest question is "Why does the woman choose to cling onto the man?" Why would any woman want to keep a man who has homosexual tendencies? Just let him go! The relationship is damaged anyway. How can the couple survive the relationship? Things only get complicated with the baby, like in "Freier Fall", but at least the woman in "Freier Fall" is smart enough to dump her husband. Is it a Polish thing to never let go of a man, I wonder?
Another question is that "What the hell is the man thinking?" He is digging his own grave when he invites the man over for lunch, and then dumb enough to have three people go on a trip together, only to get intimate with his love interest in the same tent that his girlfriend is sleeping in. WHAT? You either choose the man or the woman! At least the male lead in "Freier Fall" tries to hide his male love interest from his wife, which makes the situation plausible.
Okay, I get it: there is no happy ending for gay couples. That's the only possible explanation for the abrupt ending, except that it is unfortunately quite plausible. Hey: we're talking about Poland! Not just in Poland, things like this happen all the time! I wonder if this is all karma - if the male lead didn't beat up one of the gang members, maybe his love interest will not get revenged. Perhaps this is his consequence for being insecure about his sexuality? I don't have a definite answer for that.
But the ending only leaves me thinking more. Won't the man miss his love interest? How is he going to handle his family, when he obviously desires men now? This is not his first homosexual encounter either; won't he be tempted to have sexual relationships with men in the future? There are so many questions that can be raised from the movie, and the movie does not offer any answers for that.
There are plentiful explicit scenes, straight sex involved; prepare your fast-forward button if you don't want to see the male lead sucking the female lead's p***y. But bravo for both the male and female lead! They are willing to show it all, which is quite a brave thing to do. Especially for Mateusz Banasiuk, who is a straight actor; he has played well the indecisiveness and the emotional conflicts of the character.
Go see this movie if you want to see how a man's world got turned completely upside down. Not a happy ending, but it leaves you thinking.
**** Spoiler alert ****
My biggest question is "Why does the woman choose to cling onto the man?" Why would any woman want to keep a man who has homosexual tendencies? Just let him go! The relationship is damaged anyway. How can the couple survive the relationship? Things only get complicated with the baby, like in "Freier Fall", but at least the woman in "Freier Fall" is smart enough to dump her husband. Is it a Polish thing to never let go of a man, I wonder?
Another question is that "What the hell is the man thinking?" He is digging his own grave when he invites the man over for lunch, and then dumb enough to have three people go on a trip together, only to get intimate with his love interest in the same tent that his girlfriend is sleeping in. WHAT? You either choose the man or the woman! At least the male lead in "Freier Fall" tries to hide his male love interest from his wife, which makes the situation plausible.
Okay, I get it: there is no happy ending for gay couples. That's the only possible explanation for the abrupt ending, except that it is unfortunately quite plausible. Hey: we're talking about Poland! Not just in Poland, things like this happen all the time! I wonder if this is all karma - if the male lead didn't beat up one of the gang members, maybe his love interest will not get revenged. Perhaps this is his consequence for being insecure about his sexuality? I don't have a definite answer for that.
But the ending only leaves me thinking more. Won't the man miss his love interest? How is he going to handle his family, when he obviously desires men now? This is not his first homosexual encounter either; won't he be tempted to have sexual relationships with men in the future? There are so many questions that can be raised from the movie, and the movie does not offer any answers for that.
There are plentiful explicit scenes, straight sex involved; prepare your fast-forward button if you don't want to see the male lead sucking the female lead's p***y. But bravo for both the male and female lead! They are willing to show it all, which is quite a brave thing to do. Especially for Mateusz Banasiuk, who is a straight actor; he has played well the indecisiveness and the emotional conflicts of the character.
Go see this movie if you want to see how a man's world got turned completely upside down. Not a happy ending, but it leaves you thinking.