A Very Natural Thing

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Audience Member A really deep movie of love and prejudice. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member There was a brief period of time (after gay liberation and before AIDS) that gay movies tried to have happy endings. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Para la epoca en que fue hecha definitivamente fue un gran avance Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty groundbreaking, pretty lame. The characters are boring, and the acting is corny. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member The summary listed for this movie is totally incorrect. There is nothing in the movie pertaining to a gay teen and his closeted teacher. The movie is about David, an ex-monk still in his twenties, who meets Mark and falls for him. Soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark wants other sexual adventures, David tries to go along. Can they talk through the crisis in their relationship or is a breakup in the offing? David sees his relationship with Mark as a marriage, so if it ends, can David's heart ever heal? The quality of the movie is no better than a porn shot back in the 70's. There's a bunch of montage sequences, which I'm never a fan of. This might have been new and interesting back in 1974, but I found it rather bland and boring. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member "Being Gay is a very natural thing" says the woman interviewed at a gay pride event in NY leading to the film's title. There's also some very good quotes duirng the semi-documentary filming. However, the movie is actually a coming-out drama of David (played cconvincingly by Robert Joel) as an ex monk finding love in NY. He and his lover Mark (Curt Gareth) have issues on space, monogamy, and intimacy. Typical but universal issues facing many gay men. I liked the orginality of the story and I liked the gay affirmation of the story. The ending scenes of Joel and his new love Jason (lookalike Bo White) are beautiful. Filmed in 1974, I'm sure the movie must have been helpful to lots of gay men. Even now, 40 years later, it hasn't lost it's relevance as gays fight for marriage rights and to rescind the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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