Keep the Lights On 2012 123movies

Watch: Keep the Lights On 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – It’s 1998 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy, and–most of all–love, Keep the Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times..
Plot: An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers—compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 5,815
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	79/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 75 Popularity: 5.267 | TMDB

Reviews:

It seems like some reviews here didn’t quite “get” it…
Okay, really? This movie is “homophobic” and “makes it look like all gay men smoke crack”? That it didn’t seem “believable”? Huh. Maybe because I watched it not only knowing it was largely a true story, but also having read the real-life memoir of the man represented in the film by “Paul” (Bill Clegg), but I thought it did a very good job of depicting the tragedy of being in a relationship with someone fundamentally f*cked up and not being able to let them go until far too late. The acting was spot-on, particularly from Thure Lindhardt, and the portrayals were entirely believable. In no context whatsoever was it intentionally designed to depict gay men as insatiable crackheads.

As for complaints that basically go back to verisimilitude: people, it’s an indie flick, and a super- low-budget one at that. You can’t realistically depict Manhattan circa 1998 that way, nor can you have characters whose attire and hairstyles change all that much during the film. (That said, I’ve seen photos of Bill Clegg, and his super-preppy “look” — which is how Paul is consistently depicted in the film — hasn’t really changed much over the years.) My only issue in this regard was in terms of easily avoidable problems; in the second scene for instance, set in 1998, Erik walks by what is clearly recognizable (to a New Yorker, at least) as one of the bus shelters constructed within the past five years or so. They really had to shoot on *that* street?

My problems with the film weren’t with the acting, but more with its failure to fully flesh out Paul as a character. I’m unclear whether this was intentional — in the context of “you can never *really* know someone” — but Paul started out as an enigma and largely stayed that way. I understand that this comes with the territory with a largely autobiographical film written by the protagonist, Erik (though I have no clue whatsoever why he’s Danish, to the extent of having conversations in Danish with his sister – Ira Sachs is American and Jewish, though obviously a real-life filmmaker), but hewing so closely to a real-life timeline left Sachs with too little time to delve into what compelled him to stay with “Paul” for such an extended period. I also thought there were a few too many largely extraneous side plots, particularly involving Erik’s BFF’s biological-clock issues and the weird muscley guy Erik inexplicably hooked up with two times five years apart. And why did a solitary, unexplained pair of scenes have him going to Virginia for an extended period of time? (neither of which had anything whatsoever to do with the main plot)

Still, even given its flaws, it’s one of the best gay-themed indie films I’ve seen in quite some time (though “Weekend” is still better all around). It avoids the most typical gay-film clichés (the coming-out stories, the happy endings, the life revolving around discos and fabulous hags) to deliver something raw and real.

Pathetic, homophobic and boring
Honestly this movie was one of the worst gay movies I’ve ever seen.

The audience was fidgeting for the whole length, I saw a few people go out in the middle of the movie and not come back. I personally stayed the whole time and I couldn’t believe the abyssal emptiness of it.

2 main problems:

1/ The movie is supposed to cover 8 years (from 1998 to 2006) but everyone is wearing 2012 clothes and 2012 haircuts. Not just the people on the street – all the actors too. And in 8 years, they don’t change clothes or haircuts or anything not even once. The guy starts and ends with the exact same shaggy beard. I know they probably shot the movie under 2 weeks but it would be nice if they made an effort to at least pretend they didn’t. I’m not saying that just to be anal about it – but because it’s one of the main things that kill the movie because even with the title cards warning you we’ve changed years their whole story seems to last 1 month, certainly not 8 years. Difficult to get emotionally involved.

2/ The drug. I didn’t know it was a drug movie, but it is. It’s closer to Trainspotting than to a gay romance. And I hated the casual way it’s shown, as if all gay men smoked crack and it was normal. I’ve been around, and I’ve never seen ANYBODY smoke crack, ever. Not saying it doesn’t exist but to play it like it’s a normal occurrence is just stupid.

Then there are many other things: A guy who’s in the closet, with a girlfriend… and 1 month later he’s kissing his boyfriend in the street? And of course we saw nothing that showed his evolution. The problem just disappeared. There were definite pacing problems as well (the first 25 minutes, everything is happy-in-wonderland, and you’re just shifting on your seat waiting for the movie to start).

The only saving point is that the actor playing the drug addict is incredibly good looking. Apart from that, you’d tell me the movie was sponsored by the American Family Association and the FRC, I wouldn’t be surprised. it just plays into every single negative stereotype about gay people (save for the child molesting, I guess they didn’t have the time).

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Ira Sachs
Writer Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias
Actors Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson
Country United States
Awards 7 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex SR 3
Laboratory DeLuxe, New York, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Super 16
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format HDCAM