The Road to Love

I had mixed emotions on the film The Road to Love, it covered such a controversial subject in a very effective way but at the same time was so poorly shot it was hard to follow the plot. It may have been because my seat in class made it difficult to follow the subtitles but i think it was because of the wide varieties of camera angels that were used in the film that made the plot hard to follow.

From the begging of the movie I was sucked into the unfamiliar surroundings of France and was ready to take in as much knowledge as I could... and then the subtitles kicked in followed by the distracting in focus-out of focus camera transitions. It took me a while to figure out that the road to love the main character was traveling was not so much of a school project as it was a struggle with his own sexuality.

One thing that I did like was during one of the first interviews, the man being interviewed said how the person being openly gay is not criticized nearly as much as the straight guy is for not tormenting the gay man. This drew a parallel to my own experience with homosexuals in high school, The macho-man football stud was teased more than the student being openly gay and comfortable with his decision. This opened my eyes to the struggle the gay community is going through and how badly they are being oppressed, this is not only a struggle here in the United States they are struggling in countries all over the world.

I found it hard to believe the a seemingly straight man could possibly change his sexual orientation through interviews with fay men, and that gay men would be so forward with there physical attraction to men. Maybe it was good acting maybe this story was truth but I can not get over the fact a school project could have such a gripping effect on a student.

I don't know what else to say... as a movie i thought it was very poorly written and shot but as a learning tool i thought it was extremely effective and the only thing i think would have helped would have been if we had a copy of the dialogue to follow with the movie. But i would like to thank Andrew for choosing to cover such a controversial subject!