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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

An epic drama of the story of a young man questioning his sexuality, growing up through the sixties and seventies in Quebec, born into a strictly catholic family of five brothers, each crazier than the last. C.R.A.Z.Y is a really affective film as it was one of the only films I've ever seen to make me really think about my own crazy existence and what life really means. Life is too love and to celebrate our indifferences. The outfits and nostalgic soundtrack are all exceedingly impressive, as are the performances and sequences set to music. Sometimes C.R.A.Z.Y is tongue-in-cheek, sometimes its heartbreaking and sometimes its surrealistic, however what can't be denied is this relatively unknown and genre-less epic is quite fantastic.

The Toronto International Film Festival has revised its Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time once again, and of the four new additions I hadn't yet seen, CRAZY (2005) is the first I've sought out. Set in Quebec in the '60s and '70s, CRAZY is a family drama revolving around Zac, fourth of five brothers, who gradually realizes he's gay. His father, once close to the small child, becomes disapproving of how "soft" he's turning out, moving on to outright homophobia when he catches Zac with another boy. Zac also conflicts with an older brother who becomes a second shame to the family as a drug addict.CRAZY, which won the Genie Award for best film of 2005, is a solid and honest drama, partly realistic and tied together with themes of Christmas, miracles, songs and sexual identity. It's hardly the first film to come along about homosexuality, but it still came at a relevant time, with the debate about gay marriage in Canada reaching its boiling point. Homophobia is an old issue, but at the same time, the film's politics are a little more modern than classic Quebec cinema invoking themes of nationalism. I don't think the purpose was so much to justify homosexuality (today's audiences are a little more tolerant already), but to make the viewer feel for what it's like to have a family break down over intolerance and heal.CRAZY isn't better than Les Bons Debarras (1979), booted off the Top 10 this year, or Incendies (2010), which was dubiously snubbed. Still, it's a quality film and recommended.

A wonderful movie with many things to say about family and homosexuality. The main character can perhaps be seen as a modern Jesus who can do miracles yet he suffers the Passion of a homosexual raised in a conservative and religious place and family. The character of the mother, the movie's Virgin Mary, is perhaps the strongest character of the movie. The bond between the mother and the son is wonderfully presented. The connection with music is genius, a modern Jesus has to be distinctive if not a star. The story is somehow said through music of different types and time, from father's precious "Crazy" and dinner chansons to Zac's "Space Oddity" and other progressive rock and androgynous stuff signifying the oddity and complexity of not being "one of them". I loved the escape to modern Jerusalem, very meaningful. Significantly modern Jesus is abandoned by his Father and is saved by a local nomad. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

C.R.A.Z.Y. is my favourite movie since the year it came out. Is perfect in every sense, the narration is beautiful and every single scene is powerful. It is a story of growing up in the 70's in Canada and being different. It is not just a story about Zac but a story about Zac and Christian. The parents have five sons; three of them are successful or what society likes to call »normal«. Two stand out. One is too gentle, the other one too rebel. It shows that life is difficult for everyone that cannot be what others wants them to be. And it is difficult to learn how to deal with it and whether to change yourself. It shows all the unsuccessful struggles before finally or never figuring the solution out. This movie does not lie that people can change through night. Every process needs time to bloom. With an addition of Canadian-French culture.