"Coming Out" is the first and last film ever made in East Germany that dealt with the issue of homosexuality--those who come out of the closet and those who are still under a chaos of mentality due to the dictating of society. I believe that this film is something to be remembered and to linger in our heads. It is successful in a sense that its exposing a side of the gay world brought us to empathize and sympathize with the characters' circumstances. It is a film that gives us a wider understanding of how the ones we call the "third sex" are being driven out from a treatment of the normal world--for they are deprived with the subtle eviction and downward push of society's gaze. I may not be an advocate of the third sex but it is the understanding that was brought to me by the film that strikes to rating it. I'm giving it an 8.
Review of Coming Out
