THE STRAIGHT STORY

It’s the Greek Film Festival and since I am back studying Greek I thought it might be a great idea to catch a Greek film. I watched two Greek Films last year at the Greek Film Festival and found it quite useful. The first one had different dialect that sent me into panic mode as I didn’t understand a thing. The second movie was quite good as it had some Turkish actors in it as well.

One of the guys from my Greek class and I brought tickets to “The Straight Story” at Leichhardt. This movie had me in tears of laughter. I could not stop laughing throughout the movie. The movie was a mixture of comedy, irony, romance and sex. It definitely keeps you laughing all the way through.

The film centres around a world that is gay. Where only people of the same sex can fall in love. Anyone who claims otherwise is seen as evil and banished. It’s a world where if you are straight it’s disgusting. The story follows the main character Yiannis who pretends to be gay but is actually straight. The character is good looking and has a lot of guys chasing him but his only after pussy really.

When he meets Sofia who is a lesbian and has a partner, things start to change. Sofia gets totally smash one night and both have a one night stand. As much as disgusted Sofia is for having sex with a man she becomes addicted to it and the both of them are having sex anywhere possible. Haha

However things start to turn on them when they fall in love. Now they have a mission to make the impossible possible. Everyone is against it - their parents, their neighbours and their friends. Gay relationships are the only ones that are allowed. Yannis and Sofia belong to another world.
Watch out for the taxi scene when Sofia’s lesbian lover finds out she has been cheated on a man. Too funny!

To add to the comic relief is Yannis’ two dads. The two dads in their late age bickering and fighting over anything and everything. When one of them cheats on the other things turn nasty as everything in the living room is tossed at him.

To some extent it has the feel from the movie Birdcage. However I would have to say this is more funnier than the birdcage. It’s a film where you can watch it over and over again. I would highly recommend it to anyone.