Umut is a young water polo player - a gentle and quiet high school senr jt tryg to live his life a plited world. When a fellow player spreads a mor that he is gay, Umut, displayg matury beyond his years, ref to ny the allegatn, apologize or expla himself. His parents, distracted by their own maral problems, prove powerls to stem any fallout as his time at school be more and more ght... until events reach a shockg head. Set the high ttosterone world of teen sports, and a sometim suffotg Turkish society, Not Knowg holds a mirror up to what still means to be young and gay today so much of the world.
Contents:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Not Knowg: Directed by Leyla Yilmaz. Wh Senan Kara, Yurdaer Okur, Emir Ozn, Levent Üzümcü. Water polo player Young Umut liv a fay that is not satisfied wh their liv. His parents Selma and San fd difficult to endure each other, and Umut is after to prove himself. Then mors start circulatg that Umut is gay." data-id="ma * not knowing gay movie *
Dealg wh the load topics of growg pas, homophobia and bullyg, the film exprs characters’ terr liv entirely through dialogue. The envelopg sense of uncertaty – Umut never acknowledg whether he is gay or not – isn’t helped by unspirg visuals or sudn narrative revelatns that announce mountg emotnal turmoil. At the end of high school, mors start circulatg about their son Umut, who is gay.
We never actually know if Umut is gay or not jt as we don't know the rult of the vis to the police statn at the end of the film.
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THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
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IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
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If “Barbie” tells anythg, ’s that a movie don’t have to be gay to be, well, gay. So what mak a movie gay if isn’t explicly? Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.