"We are Animals" is a 2013 13-minute short film that will have its 5th anniversary next year. The writer and director is Dominic Haxton and this film we have here is apparently not his only work that made it to be a part of the well-known long-running film collection "Boys on Film". But it also says a lot of the quality. I have seen the other film I references and that one is really bad. This one here is better, but it is still relatively weak. The Sci-Fi components is not working out at all in my opinion and with the title of my review I mean that the film hides its lack of depth and subtlety behind loud screaming, bright effects and "significant" scenes. But it is all make-believe. At no point during its runtime, this was a remotely good watch or convincing character study. I would not even blame the actors (except for accepting the roles) because honestly the material they had to work with here was on a level where nobody could really have made it work. I would say it is telling that Haxton is working in the editorial department of reality television these days and as I see he is also still making his own films, I truly hope for audiences' sake as well as his own that he manages to step things up soon. This one we have here gets a thumbs-down from me. Not recommended.
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writinghealth24 August 2018The film reminds me of the radical queee thinker Michel Foucault who was unappologetic about his desire and critiqued the control of human sexuality. He too died of AIDS. The film is an elegant response to those who seek to control queer desire and pathologise it.
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Kirpianuscus1 September 2016a film who propose an hypothesis."80's. Reagan administration.the AIDS as the most important social danger, in a different version of recent past. cold, realistic, sarcastic. almost a parable, it is a film about fear. and exercise to fight against hypocrisy. and this does difficult to define it as bad or good. because it propose only a challenge to the viewer. AIDS. instincts. and wild rituals from an ambiguous past. two young men.love and revolution. short," We are animals" reminds all the social experiments who define the last century. this is its basic virtue. and the detail who does it more than example of film representing the interests of a small community.