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A Smart, Visually stunning, Creative Comedy of Sexual Variations
Writer/director Tom Twyker (Run Lola Run, Perfume, Heaven, The International. Paris, je t'aime) is proving to be one of the most fearless and creative talents in film today. He knows how to create strange stories that take us by surprise, present them with excellent actors, selects and composes musical scores that are as perfect as any being created, introduces just enough philosophy and scientific investigation into timely topics to challenge our brains, and tops it off with inventive photography - superimposing split screens that enhance not only the progress of the story but also allow the presentation of brief glimpses of `dangerous' ideas that stirs the cauldron to boiling.

3 is a fascinating tale. Simon (Sebastian Schipper) is an artistic architect who works with sculptors to bring their art into being. He is in a longterm relationship with Hanna (Sophie Rois) who is a television journalist cum scientist who is widely popular in their hometown of Berlin. Simon and...

Why not?
I was very excited and thankful to this film's director, Tom Tykwer, for surprising me again. Like the characters in his movie, as a film buff I was also getting bored with the choices available both in commercial and arthouse cinemas around, until I saw "3" (a.k.a. "Drei", three in German). I left the cinema in a state of grace after seeing this well acted, beautifully written, bold, inquisitive, provocative film, as it deals with assumptions on people's sexuality and the labels we like to give ourselves, our need to categorize behaviour and sexual identity and it does it in a very thorough, honest way. It's a brave film, not afraid to go deep into its subject and to expose its characters, but whilst doing it, it's not at the same time some intelectual, cold, moral lesson. Much the opposite, if anything, it's against hypocritical false morality or simply standard dramas on how badly adultery can end as seen in examples like "Fatal Attraction", 'Unfaithful" and "Indecent Proposal",...

"HOT TRIANGLE" doesn't begin to describe this......
.....strangely philosophical and sometimes wondrous take on the Lives & Loves of men and women in today's world. BUT, hold on a sec...hasn't the behavior we are being shown likely EVER been so....even in humankind's earliest days, in the dark protectiveness of caves? Well, whether that is the case or not...now and today, a most perceptive Director of Film (Tom Tykwer) is giving us a stripped bare view into the lives of 2 Men and 1 Woman....the "3" who make up this proverbial TRIANGLE. So, you need only sit back...relax...then watch and see: ....Their discovery, first, of love with one another----then, finally, a loving-union of the "3".

I cannot tell you that the Male-Female Hook-up (can we call it "illicit") being shown us is any differently played out than in 100s of movie stories which have come before. BUT...on the other hand, and strikingly so, it is in the Male / Male "Connection" where you will find the Difference in this film. In a mainstream production such...

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