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Filmų žanrai
| Out in the Silence (2009)
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A gray winter sky hangs over lonely city streets, rotted oil derricks,
and abandoned factories. This is Oil City, Pennsylvania, a fading
industrial town in the heart of the American rust belt. It is the sort
of town that Barrack Obama had in mind when he made his infamous
comments about bitter small town residents clinging to their guns and
religion as they watch the rest of the world pass them by. The peace and
quiet is shattered when the filmmaker, Oil City native Joe Wilson,
places the announcement of his wedding to another man in the local
paper. The announcement catches the eye of Kathy Springer, a local woman
whose teenage son, CJ, is being brutally tormented at school because he
is gay. Ignored by the school authorities and with no where else to
turn, she seeks help from Wilson and they begin a difficult but
ultimately successful struggle to take on the school authorities who
made every day "eight hours of pure hell" for CJ. The announcement has a
very different effect on Diane Gramley, head of the local chapter of
the ultra-conservative American Family Association. Infuriated by the
prospect of the "homosexual agenda" invading her little town, she issues
an action alert calling on townspeople to denounce same sex marriage
and all other forms of "perversion". Over the next four years Wilson
navigates the ins and outs of being different in a conservative small
town. He makes an unexpected friendship with an evangelical pastor that
demonstrates the understanding that can develop when people on different
sides of an issue lay down their swords and get to know one another.
And he helps a lesbian couple renovate an historical downtown theatre
that could catalyze the town's economic revitalization - if the
community will accept them. The greatest change occurs in Wilson himself
as he realizes that while maverick acts such as the publication of his
wedding announcement can create a splash, creating lasting change in
small towns takes the courage and ongoing commitment of local folks to
speak out and live openly.
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