He Who Is Without Sin (2020)

An important movie about an important issue

This movie is really well done it starts of a bit fuzzy and will probably make you wonder why the **** I gave this 9,5 stars but as the story continues the viewers get to learn more and more about the story... And this is done brilliantly, not only with zooming in/out photo angles etc. But mainly how this is cut with more and more details as the movie goes forward making you at first (much like many victims) think oh that was not so bad... but wait... ok that happened too... inviting viewers in to the thought process of how a person can react to this situation.

This movie is in NO WAY a romance or.a feel good, or a gay story for that matter. It is the story of a person who has been molested by a predator as well as his journey to acceptance if there is any acceptance.

It is a movie that deals with common reactions to molestation, common misconceptions and beautifully shows and talks about power relations without, ability to consent, signals etc. Clearly showing non consensual behaviour, grooming etc. Calling the behaviour out for what I is , teaching us a lot but without coming of as an afternoon special and is a movie I do think many people need to watch, but beware of triggers, I also think many young (or any people for that matter) could use a knowledgable person to talk to after watching this.

So what do I say, it is a f*** important movie, dealing with an important subject done in a really good way!

Leia Mais

The ugly truth.

This was honestly quite well done. It was a good movie. Elijah was amazing. His acting was completely believable.

I was confused as to why Martin was telling two different stories about what happened that night. I assumed the trauma caused him to be either misremembering, defensive or both, about what occurred. He downplayed what had happened because his molester was a celebrity and because he was embarrassed. He kept blaming himself, saying that Lawrence probably thought he was sending him signals and that maybe he enjoyed it. Which obviously wasn't true. He was just deeply traumatized to the point of breaking down.

There was absolutely nothing romantic or sweet about this. It was an adult taking advantage of a minor. Lawrence abused his power and knowledge of him being Martin's idol. They truly managed to get the message across. I was deeply affected and made uncomfortable by Lawrence's behavior.

In conclusion, Lawrence was a disgusting criminal who should have gone to prison. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see what happened afterward. We only saw how it severely affected Martin.

All that said, I liked that it showed that anyone is capable of doing such horrible things. That includes celebrities. This is why we shouldn't idolize people.

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One of the two "shining" faces of the Gameboys series, the twenty-year-old actor Elijah Canlas, plays the main role of the seventeen-year-old journalism student Martin in this film, and as Karcikarel already writes, he played it excellently (he won the Jury Award for acting performance at the PP4 Awards Night 2018 festival, where the film was also awarded for best screenplay, cinematography and feature film). The "negative" TV reporter Lawrence was played by the three-year-old handsome Filipino Enzo Pineda and was portrayed very solidly. This controversial film about sexual harassment is a glimpse into the disillusioned soul of a young student who adores his idol. I think that there are a number of people in the world who "endure" the harassment of their idol, or perhaps a producer, in order to get the role of a toadstool, they simply do not want to let go of their possible chance at any cost. Finally, the newly filmed Thai series Call It What You Want is about this, for which I wrote a review a few days ago. The English hardsubs are quite small and harder to read, and I believe that in time someone will find separate subtitles so that those who can't speak English at all can translate them. It would be a shame not to see a movie with such good acting.




Jedna ze dvou "rozzářených" tvářiček seriálu Gameboys, dvacetiletý herec Elijah Canlas, zde v tomto filmu hraje hlavní roli sedmnáctiletého studenta žurnalistiky Martina a jak už píše Karcikarel, zahrál ji výborně (získal Cenu poroty za herecký výkon na festivalu PP4 Awards Night 2018, kde snímek byl ještě oceněn za nejlepší scénář, kameru a celovečerní film). "Negativního" TV reportéra Lawrence si střihl třecetiletý sympatický Filipínec Enzo Pineda a byla ztvárněna velmi solidně. Tento kontroverzní film o sexuálním obtěžování je nahlédnutím do rozčarované duše mladého studenta, zbožňujícího svůj idol. Myslím si, že ale na světě existuje celá řada těch, kteří "přetrpí" obtěžování svého idolu, nebo třeba producenta, aby získali roli nějaké muchomůrky, prostě za žádnou cenu nechtějí pustit svou případnou šanci. Nakonec je o tom čerstvě natočený thajský seriál Call It What You Want, ke kterému jsem psal před pár dny recenzi. Anglické hardsuby jsou dosti malé a hůře čitelné a věřím, že časem někdo najde samostatné titulky, aby si je mohli přeložit ti, kteří anglicky neumí vůbec. Byla by to škoda, nevidět film s tak dobrým hereckým výkonem.

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