We on the screen

When we go to the cinema, we want to feel reflected in the movies somehow. Even when we watch terror movies, we want to feel that it is us who is running around escaping from the devil of the mask. We can easily find a counterpart in drama or comedy movies, because they reflect some bits of reality.
The other night I watched "When Sally Met Harry" a classic funny movie starred by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. I think most of people can find themselves reflected on one of the characters.
But for gay people, it is important to watch gay-themed movies, especially since most of us don't live in either Manchester or Pittsburgh, and have the lives of those in "Queer As Folk" (US version). Most of us have normal quiet lives and we do not sleep around and have exciting adventures as the scripts describe. Though, if they really represented the live in the screens, no-one would watch it.
Also, as Spanish, I find it so different "our" lives than the lives of those characters in "reality alike" series as the ones I have just mentioned or "Sex and the City". Starting for the fact that we normally work, so it is so difficult to find the time to see our friends (that's why, I guess, Carrie is a freelance writer). But as well, because (correct me if I am wrong), at least here in Spain, the blind date thing is not something very common. Yes, I guess the let's-arrange-to-have-sex thing is, especially between gay people, but I mean dates. Do we date? I don't thinks so. At least I have never dated anyone. My relationships have gone as: meeting someone in a party, or introduced by a friend (not planned), dance a bit (there's always music), and some time later (time meaning few weekends), after knowing each other a bit, kiss for first time while dancing Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". And from that moment on, we meet often, we have dinner, we go to parties together, and so on. But I never got the "I'll call you" good-night-sentence (perhaps because all of them are dying to call me, LOL).
Or perhaps this is only a language thing: when in Spanish we say "Estamos saliendo juntos" ("We are going out (together)"), in English, would we say "We are dating"? I am not really sure, because when you start dating someone, some time in the future the word 'exclusive' will be added, i.e. until then, you can also date other people, even double dating. In the Spanish version, when you start "going out" with someone, it is for granted that you are exclusive: some time in the future your best friend will come to you and tell you that has seen him/her with another guy/girl going out of a coffee shop and you would go mad at him/her and it will turn out to be his/her cousin (or this is what s/he says).
So, either Americans (I say Americans because most of the movies/series we see are from the US) are too frivolous or "we" are too serious.
Also there is the possibility that, at the end, this is are only movies and they reflect what we want to see. Or what we can, because, is there any woman in the entire world that has sex with their bra on? or who, just after having sex, covers herself up to the neck (it isn't cold, huh) while him is covered just up to the belt? Or who, when going to the toilet, takes the sheet with her (when it is so difficult and annoying to make the bed again, and if you have to make it again, you will obviously have to uncover yourself)?
This is something I have always distinguished between US and Spanish movies: in the second ones, you will always see some tits, most of the time a pussy, and some times a dick (even at "Lucía y el Sexo" you can see the erection in its process, when I have never seen an erection on a commercial American movie, not that it is what I look for but it is part of the life and of sex and, starting for the fact that there is always a sex scene in a movie, even if it is a movie about nuns and priests...).
So, back to movies and back to gays. I was saying that it is very important for people to watch movies that connect with them. Not that a librarian has to watch only movies with librarians or book keepers (say "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself" or "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover", which actually are worth to watch, both of them).
So, last night I watched to themed movies. Gay themed, that is.
The first one is an Israeli movie I have been willing to watch for a long time: "Yossi & Jagger". Someone told me about it very long time ago and I didn't have the opportunity to watch it until yesterday. Although some people told they didn't like it at all, I thought I had to see it for myself (perhaps it is the uniform thing, LOL). I liked it. There are some things in the movie that were very interesting, although as a whole, there was something missing, I wasn't getting something.
Here you have a bit of it, what I have found.

I also watched "Eating Out", a movie I came across somehow the other day. One of the main characters, Mark, played by Ryan Carnes, who was in "General Hospital" (never seen that series), also plays Justin, Andrew Van De Kamp's boyfriend at "Desperate Housewives" (both series at ABC (http://abc.go.com/), actually).
So, this movie is a comedy and I actually found it very funny. There are somethings in it that, I think, are steps forward for American movies.
By the way, there is one of the songs in the soundtrack by Ivri Lider, and I really like his music.
Here you have a bit I have found.

Tonight I am watching I have a movie waiting: "Gadjo Dilo". This isn't a gay-themed movie, it is about the inter-cultural difficulties between Gypsies and a French guy. I wanted to see this movie for a long time. The french guy is Romain Duris, the same guy as "L'auberge espagnole" and it's second part "Les poupées russes ", who I find very handsome. Obviously, the Gypsy topic interests me a lot, but he is cute.

Oh, and I saw this silly Spanish movie the other day, called "Año Mariano" (Mariano, a part of related to Marijuana, means something of or related to Virgin Mary). It is real silly, but, hey, I had a good laugh.

What am I going to watch next? You tell me!