Frankie (Harris Dickinson) doesn’t know what he wants. Or ISR actually is. Only so much is certain: he likes to smoke grass, actually he is alleDrogen right, even opiate-containing drugs of his cancer-sick far he pulls himself small chopped through nose.
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At first glance, 19-year-old does not seem insecure at all. It is big, has striking but pretty features, sad blue eyes and lots of muscles. He likes to photograph it in mirror if he doesn’t train her. But Frankies ‘ identity problems are more profound than most teenagers. While he is hanging out with seinenhyper-masculine pals on Coney Island’s beach during day, he meets sichnachts with older gay men; Only in chatroom, but soon real sex in parking lot and on beach.
At same time he starts EineBeziehung with pretty Simone (Madeline Weinstein), for which he is not as interested as his buddies. She seems to be more of an alibi: for his mor, who wants to know with whom her son nachtsrumtreibt; For his hollow boys, who constantly talk about pussies, but of course have no contact with girls; And for himself, because as gay Frankie doesn’t want to call himself, gay, that’s a swear word in his world.
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Beach Rats is second feature film directed by American film director and screenwriter Eliza Hittman, who won Director’s award at Sundance Film Festival authorwishes work. She grew up herself in Brooklyn and spent many summers on beach of Coney Island, EinerGegend, which is characterised by violence and precarious social conditions. In 19th century, sournmost corner of Brooklyn established itself as a place of fürProstitution, gambling and all sorts of shady things; Since 1920s-Jahrenwurden re were mainly amusement parks and tourist attractions built, New York middle class should serve as a distraction. After ZweitenWeltkrieg, y had to close gradually. In place of old amusement parks, high residential blocks were built, in which mainly social housing was created. To this day, area is characterised by high unemployment and crime.
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On seafront promenade with its verfallenenVergnügungsanlagen and arcades, however, time seems to have stopped. A bit is still noticeable from hedonistic charm of era, when tourists brought money in and slot machines still shone. But varnish is long bare.
The fact that Hittman chose this place as scene for her film Machtviel from his magic. The Coney Islands Promenade with IhrenFeuerwerken is an equally cheap façade like one that Frankie tried to maintain before SeinemUmfeld. He lives in a sense in a doppeltenParallelwelt: quite personally, between his latenthomophoben buddies and his own homosexual desire. And within New York society; Even though few train stations separate him from gay community in Manhattan, he cannot leave his own social environment.
Slow approach
How Frankie is torn inside actually, Mannur can guess. Hittman does not dare to come close to her protagonist. Therefore, re are also no artificial, pseudo-profound sentences that no man would Jemalswirklich say. Instead, camera captures what seems to be most important for Frankieund’s friends: surface. She often says more than any dialogue ever wants. In close-ups you can see GepierctenBauchnabel of Frankie’s girlfriend Simone, her sticking fingernails, IhreKünstlichkeit. Frankies tanned six-pack, his blue eyes, his freckles.
Lovingly, camera always returns to British leading actor HarrisDickinson, whom Guardian AlsEntdeckung of year celebrates. He plays his character unaufdringlichund of course, but always in such a way that one feels his Unentschlossenheitdeutlich. He always seems to making slowly, to views seinerFreunde, to sex with men. His favorite phrase “I don’t know Whati mag” is so widely formulated and vague that he’s actually stehenkann for everything.
Beach rats is not a real coming-out, but rar a coming-of-age story about question of what to expect from life, or no, first of all Sommerferien.Es is a gentle milieu study that never evaluates painting of Elendstourismushat, which is never worth, but Only observed and recorded.
Not skating but cruising
Socially weak, petty criminals in New York, UnbekannteSchauspieler, proletenhaftes chatter about sex and girls – that reminds Larry Clark’s cult Kids of 1995; Only that at beach rats not aids, but homosexuality is main me, and subculture does not skate, but cruising.
Both films show a realistic picture of dasLeben in a certain milieu, at a certain time. While kids are filmed hard and realistically, Hittmans film looks dreamy, somehow retro, although it plays clearly imnow. This is certainly also due to analogue 16mm format, with which French camera wife Hélène Louvart works in a poetic way.
It is derStil of photographer Ryan McGinley and of all Lana Del Rey videos, in which many teenagers find mselves again. The feeling of sea and despair undunendlichen stars in sky, but also of live fast, young. This feeling of life plays out among teenagers in beach rats between boredom undZudröhnen, between Subway and Autoscooters.
