Canadian Film Forum

Grand_Shaman · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112

Here you are!

nico_kerekes · Junior Data inscrierii: 16/Mar/2009 Mesaje: 9

Christian. Raymond. Antoine. Zachary. Yvan

I believe this film is about finding your identity. Zac struggles to find his identity within his family (who believes that Zac is a "special" child blessed by God with healing powers) and within himself (continually denying who he is for his father's sake)
He is trying to find a place in a world that perceives him different

What is special about this film is the way in which humour finds its way in such serious subjects like homosexuality, drug addiction, family conflicts...

"I'm crazy for trying, and crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you"

Tabita · Trimis: 29/01/2010 01:18 Titlul subiectului:

Zac:
“Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue”

Michelle:
”I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted
And then someday you'd leave me for somebody new”

Laurianne:
”Worry, why do I let myself worry?”

Gervais:
”Wond'ring what in the world did I do?”

Michelle:
”Crazy for thinking that my love could hold you”

Zac:
”I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying”

Raymond’s girlfriend:
”And I'm crazy for loving you”

Laurianne
”Crazy for thinking that my love could hold you”

Zac
”I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you.”

viorica · Junior Data inscrierii: 10/Dec/2009 Mesaje: 6

Looking at this film I’m feeling to be in a crazy world where natural things are mixed with crazy things like drugs and homosexuality. Zac is trying to find his identity so all his experiences make us to notice his evolution , not without struggle, through a very complex or varied field of feelings like : fear, anxiety, satisfaction, shame, telepathy connexion…Every child in this family finds his way in the life, but I could’n see the family support for Raymond’s problems with drugs. He was lost for his family from the first time he took drugs. Nobody helped him to change…nobody saw him as a serious problem for the family, for the society… and he died! This is why I consider this film as a drama.

adela_bm2007 · Trimis: 01/02/2010 12:57 Titlul subiectului:

Le film C.R.A.Z.Y est un portrait authentique et sensible d'une famille ordinaire du Quebec. Cette chronique de famille parle de l'amour,d'acceptation et de difference.Le film aborde avec sincerite les bonheurs et les heurts d;une fraterie de cinq garcons tout a fait differents, au milieu on trouve ZAC, un adolescent tourmente qui cherche toujours etre a l'assentiment de son pere.C'est pour ce raison qu'il refoule sa vraie condition.Avant d'etre un film sur l'homosexualite on a un film sur la relation pere-fils et le desir d'etre aime et compris par les parents.D'outre part la relation mere-fils est indestructible.
C.R.A.Z.Y est unfilm sur une famille tyique qui vit des joies et des problemes

Chioran Claudia · Trimis: 04/02/2010 16:59 Titlul subiectului:

Why C.R.A.Z.Y.?
Probably because it’s crazy to ignore the rules imposed by a traditional society. It’s crazy to be gay, it’s crazy to be junkie, it’s crazy to listen again and again only a certain version of a disc.

This craziness is broken when Raymond die and Zack accept his homosexuality, but also when Yvan breaks the last disc CRAZY.

Nothing is crazy anymore:
C.R.A.Z.Y. does not exist anymore.
Zack is accepted with his “craziness”, so, “it’s OK to be gay”.
The father don’t listen again and again the same CRAZY disc.

Conclusion?
Let’s change what we can change and accept what we can’t. It is not so CRAZY to do it.

Grand_Shaman · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112

Gabi Rosus · Trimis: 07/07/2010 21:13 Titlul subiectului:

I think we should accept friends as they are. Their choice of how to lead their life is entirely up to them. I found this movie very nice and impressive. Touches a very sensitive subject and shows the struggle that some people have to go through in order to defend their choices. Good movie