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What is with Ferzan Ozpetec and homosexuality?
15 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
'Le Fate Ignoranti' was released 5 years after Ferzan Ozpetec's first (wongly acclaimed) feature film called 'Il bagno turco'. In this first film, a married man coming to Turkey to take over a Hamam ended up having an affair with a young Turkish boy, but was stabbed at the end: of course, he was 'officially' killed following orders from his rival ruthless Turkish businesswoman, but I highly suspect that he killed his bisexual character at the end to render the film more 'virtuous'. In 'Le Fate Ignoranti', which was highly prized as a sensitive drama giving voice to marginal members of society, I cannot help but notice that he maintains, once again, the same kind of schizophrenic attitude: despite describing, sometimes in an explicit way, the gay behaviour of some of his characters, the film is at the end completely ruined by an incoherent and superfluous emerging romance between the wife and the gay lover of the deceased husband:so my question is: what is the point of explicitly describing the gay behaviour and at the same time turning one of his major characters straight at the end of the film? I definitely think that this director has a problem with this issue, and that he tries every time to transmit some guilt about it to the viewer. So I am definitely convinced that he has no balls, that he is unable to clearly take a stand once for all. And I therefore have to conclude that 'Le fate Ignoranti', due to its falsely 'virtuous ending', is ultimately a huge imposture.
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