C.R.A.Z.Y. (the film)

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 movie from Jean-Marc Vallee which, in the words of a reviewer on IMDb.com, "is a story about a young homosexual (although it isn't clearly stated in the film, and it probably would be closer to the truth to say he's bisexual), born in the 60's. We see him evolving through the next three decades, with all the difficulties one might see in having troubles with sexual orientation in theses years (among which the perception of other people of his age, questions about himself because of the taboo nature of the topic, problems having it accepted by parents and so on)."

Young Zachary is especially torn between his will to retain his father's love and his natural inclination.

I saw the movie on Friday night and went back to see it again on Saturday night because I liked it so much. The performance of the actors is outstanding. The scenario is excellent and perfectly in sync with the music. The atmosphere of the 60s and 70s is, to the best of my knowledge, very well reproduced (I first thought the movie had been made in the 1980s!)

Apart from the father-and-son relationship, the movie also inspired me on a totally different subject. Seeing Raymond, one of Zac's four brothers, drift towards drug addiction, I thought it is amazing and, in a way, beautiful that mankind can liberate itself from it's instinct for survival and create war, global warming and industrial hazards which might cause it's destruction in exchange for present CRAZYness!

PS: Thank to the English subtitles, I now know that a good translation of "acte manqué" is "subconsciously deliberate mistake".