' Animals ' is not an entertaining film. It is brilliantly and quietly directed by Nadir Ben Yadir and it shows homophobia to the most extreme point possible. Soufiane Chilah plays a man who is surrounded by everyday homophobia and he tries to navigate himself through this. That is until he intervenes one night outside a gay bar to help a woman who is being molested by a carful of people. He loses his navigation just once and gets into the car, and then he loses his way into the terrible night that awaits him. Just one necessary image for any reader who may see this review; naked on the grass in a place called nowhere, and wounded, he is told he will go to hell for being gay, and then the man who says this lifts a heavy stone and smashes it down upon the outstretched hand of the wounded man. Normally I cannot watch torture on screen, but I had to watch this. Every adult viewer should watch this film and hold up a mirror to his or her face. Could I and would I want to do that to another being ? Ask that simple question and hope that it is no. Evil is a word I rarely use but the director of this painful film shows its face. A truly necessary cinema.
Review of Animals
