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Disfigurement Minor 
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TITLE |
Madagascar Skin (1995) |
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NOTES |
A young gay
man has a large birthmark on his face (in the |
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shape of
Madagascar). He is extremely envious of other |
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young gay
men who succeed in finding partners. On the |
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beach where
he is sleeping in his car he discovers an older |
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man who is
buried up to his neck in the sand. They move into |
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what appears
to be an abandoned house and start the |
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process
getting to know each other from opposite ends of the |
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But be
warned this is a hugely boring film, in weather terms |
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force 10.
This can only be achieved by those films which are |
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so
pretentious they seek to put a girdle around the earth. |
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There is
surrealism, there are shocking images of a decaying |
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corpse, a
severed penis and there is the slog of two men |
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talking in a
small room for ever and ever. And yet for all this |
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the two men
have no depth of character. There is no |
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satisfactory
explanation why Flint the older man who is |
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heterosexual
should change and have a gay relationship. |
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