This is actually my favorite movie I've ever watched, It's just so good.. The concept of the movie in general is interesting, The main plot is that a Priest is coming into a prison to hear a confession from an inmate. However it turns out that the Priest and the inmate knew each other from back when they were young adults, the rest of the prisoners lock the priest inside the confessional booth with the inmate and, as an act of revenge, the inmate (Simon) forces him to sit through a play put on by the other inmates acting out their past together, making it so the priest (Bilodeau) has to spend the rest of his life remembering the things he did to Simon.
The story that's acted out by the prisoners is beautiful, it features a young Simon, his boyfriend Vallier, and Bilodeau. Both Simon and Bilodeau are struggling with their homosexuality - Simon embraces it until beaten into repressing it. A female French aristocrat is flying into town and upon arrival quickly takes a liking to Simon. Simon uses her interest as a way to repress his homosexuality and love for Vallier.
Bilodeau is the opposite, at the beginning he represses his homosexuality and love for Simon, until embracing it during the later parts of the film.
Their stories are complete opposites to each other, which makes it interesting watching two people evolve in two different but similar ways.
Vallier, the boyfriend of Simon, loses his only love he's ever had to the Aristocrat and spends the runtime of the film struggling to accept that him and Simon can't and shouldn't be together. Just as he begins to finally accept it, Simon ends up coming around and begins embracing his homosexuality and love for Vallier again.
It's such a beautiful story and I love it, this is my favorite movie ever.
The story that's acted out by the prisoners is beautiful, it features a young Simon, his boyfriend Vallier, and Bilodeau. Both Simon and Bilodeau are struggling with their homosexuality - Simon embraces it until beaten into repressing it. A female French aristocrat is flying into town and upon arrival quickly takes a liking to Simon. Simon uses her interest as a way to repress his homosexuality and love for Vallier.
Bilodeau is the opposite, at the beginning he represses his homosexuality and love for Simon, until embracing it during the later parts of the film.
Their stories are complete opposites to each other, which makes it interesting watching two people evolve in two different but similar ways.
Vallier, the boyfriend of Simon, loses his only love he's ever had to the Aristocrat and spends the runtime of the film struggling to accept that him and Simon can't and shouldn't be together. Just as he begins to finally accept it, Simon ends up coming around and begins embracing his homosexuality and love for Vallier again.
It's such a beautiful story and I love it, this is my favorite movie ever.