#first time encounter

PRORA (2012) Post 1 of 2

Short Film

Directed By: Stéphane Riethauser

TOM GRAMENZ (as Jan)

&

SWEN GIPPA (as Matthieu)

Synopsis: Two best friends one harboring a crush on the other invade the PRORA (A deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex) after partying all night. Something happens that could forever alter there friendship.

My Review: This movie was an oxymoron for me. I loved it but hated it. These two friends are from different countries but there is no explanation as to their friendship. Are they best friends or friends that just met. Matthieu is presumably heterosexual talking about all he wants to do with a woman.

Inside the Prora they rough housing and breaking windows. Jan gets Matthieu on the floor and holding him down as a part of their rough housing. They look at each other and Jan kisses Matthieu (who is stunned perhaps but doesn't try to stop the encounter)

As Jan continues kissing Matthieu, Matthieu kind of half heartily participates even helping Jan take off his shirt...the camera pans off of them but it's clear something is transpired. Then back to the room Jan is off sitting alone while Matthieu lies on the floor buckling his belt.

No conversation and Matthieu gets up to leave as Jan follows. When Jan touches Matthieu he responds in anger and soon punches Jan. He falls cutting his leg severely on glass on the floor as Matthieu escapes.

So much unexplained stuff here. Jan is seriously hurt and he and Matthieu are the only people there so how did he get help (you later see he has stitches in his leg)

So we see Jan sitting alone on the beach all stitched up and Matthieu arrives and sits next to him and no words are spoken for the rest of the film. It's clear that they have forgiven one another but would've been nice to hear a conversation.

Clove Mirch sat at her desk staring at the paper in front of her. The loud sound of the ticking clock was all that she could hear in the silence of her room. She glanced up at it when she noticed the time realizing that it was already mid-afternoon. It seem to have came rather quickly meaning that she'd missed lunch. She seemed to have lost track of time since she was busy finishing up yet another pile of paperwork that was neatly stacked in a corner on her desk. When she was wasn't training the new recruits, she usually was found to be in her office with a load of paperwork Iemitsu gives her to sign, fill out, or file. It was such a pain. 

The navy haired woman let out a small groan as she leaned back in her chair stretching. Maybe she could still get down to the mess hall and get something, like a sandwich just to bring back to her room and nibble on while she finished. Getting up from her chair, she headed out from her room and began down the hallway heading toward the mess hall. She walked tall with pride. She was a prideful woman indeed much like her mother. Turning the corner she saw something, it looked to be a person wearing full body armor. The young woman had no idea what she was getting into, or this person was from. She just assumed it was this another prank by those three idiot students of hers? Clove was already agitated enough as it was she didn't need this.