carnival A pair of peaceful homosexuals run a strange establishment called the Cage for the Crazy. This place is very green, as can be seen by the nature of the speakers in this cabaret. Rinato, outwardly not betraying his inclinations, managing, and mannered and feminine Alben acts on stage as an opera diva. Twenty years this couple together. One day, Rinato’s son comes to him and tells him that he is going to marry the daughter of a deputy from a party that advocates high moral principles. Rinato begins to prepare for the reception of the bride’s parents, deciding after an unsuccessful attempt to send Alben away to impersonate his wife. His task is to play the role of a good family man, and even allegedly working attaché for culture. The viewer is invited to see what comes out of this risky venture.
Scenes based on the clash of morality and immorality are often the most spectacular. This film clearly confirms this. Morality and immorality here does not smell of dignity, we are not talking about the difficulties of combining spiritual and animal principles. Everything, on the contrary, is imbued with the lightness of carnival and caricature. Rinato does not look like a degenerate and morally corrupt type, although he is obsessed with eroticism, nor is the father of the bride with his chatter very perceived as a moral authority. As they say, these representatives of so different worlds are worth each other, although they would hardly have met without the marriage of their children. In general, in this film, it is not so much the content of the spoken words that is important as the physical plasticity with which they are accompanied. This is especially true of Alben. He embodied the most grotesque and stereotypical gay image imaginable. Smooth, capricious, soft as ghee, and touchy, he consciously strives to turn into a woman. Due to the comic nature of everything that happens on the screen, this desire does not feel the drama of identity disorder, which brings this work out of the number of dull modern social videos about gays. Everything here is not serious, even the plot itself, which by its contrast is little like something realistic. In general, this is the most pleasant thing about the film - that it is perceived as a wonderful theatrical carnival, and the gay heroes are completely removed from what today is called the gay theme. It is unlikely that their problems will seem close to someone, and such a task is not set by the director - after all, this is primarily an entertaining movie.
8 out of 10