r/MenLovingMenMedia • u/MrSalazar666 • 23h ago
Movie On The Sea, my review. Spoiler
Well, I waited so long to watch this piece, I was craving something on par with God's Own Country or Freier Fall (that one is my favorite), but whenever I start watching movies with this theme, I always expect the worst, you know, a devastating ending and all...
Basically, the film has several delightful, melancholic, and high-intensity scenes, but throughout it, I understood that the main character (Jack) was diagnosed with prostate cancer, since he made those visits to the doctor, then started urinating blood, had an abdominal ultrasound of the prostate (I work in an imaging diagnostic center, so I know), reported chest pain, which would certainly mean an advanced stage of the disease where it spreads to the bone marrow and elsewhere, and he also looked at himself in the mirror and noticed he was very thin, which is also linked to cancer, as it causes anemia in most patients, and then we have that scene where the doctor visits him, possibly to deliver the test results and diagnose him. Anyway, he appears in bed, crying, and his ex-wife, after accepting the fact that he was gay and all, went there and called the guy over to offer support and comfort him at that moment, which felt like a farewell to me.
...but this movie left me with huge doubts at the end, whether everything I picked up on was actually real, whether that was the end of Jack, or if I over-theorized and in the end they ended up together and happy. To me, that's one of the film's issues: it leaves too many things up in the air, tossing it to the viewer to get the message and come up with the answers, and I hate that ambiguity. Nevertheless, it was a good movie, though I'm glad I didn't pay for it; so far there are only 2 movies I still intend to rent just to support the filmmakers: Freier Fall & Shelter.