CRAZY, film that portrays the homosexual conflict between a father and his son, arrives in Spain endorsed by its long list of awards and is based on the life of the co-writer, Francois Boulay.
Those responsible for this Canadian film, that does not stop being the memory of a boy turned into a man, they explain that it is a "hymn to the family". The hymn thing, still being a play on words in the mouth of its director, it fits like a glove: the film's soundtrack is played by David Bowie, los Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd y Patsy Cline. Next to nothing.
‘CRAZY.’ takes advantage of family entanglements to review the history of this North American country between the sixties and eighties. Their customs, their peoples, your culture, its music, its literature, his permissiveness… during two hours, a song to tolerance is built that invites the new generations to reflect on the mistakes made by their parents, more than anything so that they themselves do not repeat them.
The 25 December 1960 nace Zachary Beaulieu, protagonist of the story. the kid, raised and educated in a humble and conventional family with five children to feed, he has always had a compelling need to get his father to accept him as he is. To make it, will try to repress his true sexual condition and will agree to make a 'therapeutic trip’ to Jerusalem to return home a man. An uncle. Un machote. A more masculine type than the bearded lumberjacks in plaid shirts.
The love between a father and a son is the main axis around which a solid ‘CRAZY.’ revolves.. Jean-Marc Vallée invirtió 10 years of his life in this project, which he defined in his time as his "artistic business card". He turned on the camera and let Zachary Beaulieu tell his story, with music and rebellion, joints and alcohol, and go back to the times of innocence to make peace with the man who gave him life.