Swoon (1992)

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dir. Tom Kalin
release date: september 11, 1992
In a film based on actual events, teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy. When the body is found, all evidence leads to Nathan and Richard, whose strange relationship makes the case one of the most talked-about trials of the 1920s.

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@rubytuesday5412 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifly done in black and white. A visual delight. Of course, I always love to see a true story in movie style after seeing many doco's on the subject. "Compulsion' was good too. Thanks, uploader.

@leep7136 Жыл бұрын

I've been obssessed with Dickie and Babe for a long time and I just can't believe the film is here, thank you with my whole heart

@orangecat5909 Жыл бұрын

Who can't be obsessed i loved this movie also.

@leep7136 Жыл бұрын

@@orangecat5909 absolutely!

@leuconost6045 Жыл бұрын

I love Leopold and Loeb

@leep7136 Жыл бұрын

@@leuconost6045 I can totally understand, everything about the case and them is incredibly interesting

@leuconost6045 Жыл бұрын

@@leep7136 Yees, this case is so interesting. I am obessesing with these beautiful and amazings guys. I love Nathan's intelligent and his fascination for Nietzsche's Übermensch. I love all of Richard loeb, he was so beautiful

@charogomezruvalcaba9321 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! ❤️💞💖

@jrnsssandsrnsssands7419 3 жыл бұрын

THANKS SO MUCH!!! Incredible movie full art!!!! One of the best movies of my life!! Hi from Perú 🇵🇪✌🏽🔥

@sancuyano7755 2 жыл бұрын

There is another film that deals with the same subject. It's from 1959, it was called “Compulsion”, with Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell, and was directed by Richard Fleischer. And Alfred Hichcock’s “Rope” (1948) is about a similar theme.

@paradiseinretrograde7687 Жыл бұрын

i am watching all the movies based on leopold and loeb. i’ve watched rope, compulsion, murder by numbers… even scream, if you count it since billy and stu and like l&l.

@nariaein Жыл бұрын

I know this comment is 8 months old but if you are still looking for recs... These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever is a book inspired by Leopold & Leob, it's very well-done

@semenandgayuncle Жыл бұрын

hello, this is me from my second account. thank you for the recommendations, i’m always happy to see more l&l stories both nonfiction and fictionalization 😊

@davidsheriff9274 25 күн бұрын

There is also a fantastic Japanese film called Confessions that deals with the similar topic, check it out, it's a really cool movie, It's on KZfaq.

@totis1777 2 жыл бұрын

I cannot believe this movie is here. This is a work of art. Thaks so much!

@sancuyano7755 2 жыл бұрын

@raanasyed8249 Жыл бұрын

They are all inspired by the real life case of Loeb and Leopold

@davidsheriff9274 25 күн бұрын

Check out a Japanese film called Confessions, it's on KZfaq.

@bjmartin5225 Жыл бұрын

Not only was the phone about fifty years to soon but answering machines weren’t out to the late 1960s or 1970s .

@Walter-ox6uf 3 жыл бұрын

An incredible film that deserves to be among the mythological films of all time both for the reconstruction of the story and for the way it was interpreted but above all for the fantastic story that managed to create a mix between the madness of the story itself and sensuality. Both actors were great and up to their roles but managed to make their love story good by bringing out their sensuality while being aware of making extreme gestures. The actors are both beautiful but as far as I'm concerned my eyes were only for Daniel Schlachet, incredibly beautiful and sensual actor in all his expressions. It is a film that absolutely must be seen!!! ... Walter of Rome

@lovelyarman178 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely chemistry between them...they look so cute together....I wish they were good guys if they didn't commit that crime.......

@benjamindoerrmann9356 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@dimivagenas2186 Жыл бұрын

They are so lovely and so gute at the same time!!!

@davidsheriff9274 25 күн бұрын

Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

@MUMMI9898 3 ай бұрын

what a beautful soundtrack i need the list of songs :(

@PeePeeLaMoi Жыл бұрын

The scene when he grieves for Richard it just incredible. Did they wrap him up because he was self harming?

@lemfarba4827 2 жыл бұрын

Two geniuses that didn't know to keep their mouths shut and get a lawyer?

@GiftSparks Жыл бұрын

IRL they actually did ask for a lawyer, but were refused by the District Attorney. This was pre-Miranda, when the confessions could have been thrown out because their rights were denied.

@JuanRamos-qt7vo 3 жыл бұрын

WoW A piece of art!

@dimivagenas2186 Жыл бұрын

Indeed,a masterpiece!!!

@Autostade67 Жыл бұрын

Um...I believe the use of anachronistic props was deliberate (the opening scene mixing drag, caucasians and people of colour recontextualized, the artifice of the film set - including the very late 20th century folding chairs, etc. is a clue to that). There's all sorts of theoretical clap trap I could go into here (very 90s but alas, still falling from the lips of Gender Studies baby queers today) about artifice and authentic representation, about renegade counter narrative and such, but why bore you?

@GiftSparks Жыл бұрын

Yes- it is a brilliant art film. Influence of Luis Bunuel in some scenes. It’s not like it was intended to be pitch perfect as to the period. It has a dream like quality that was intended. I love this film.

@orangecat5909 Жыл бұрын

Craig Chester crush alerts comeing.

@benjamindoerrmann9356 3 жыл бұрын

Is that a push button phone on the bed? looks like it!

@malcolmmarshall5946 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and sounded like he was leaving messages on answering machines

@widowrumstrypze9705 Жыл бұрын

They probably used an answering service.

@voxtemporis4503 3 жыл бұрын

On place to which he traveled was Saigon.

@mikejustice1196 Жыл бұрын

Remote control in the 20’s? 😝

@6startrek 3 жыл бұрын

They blamed it on a black man. Everyone is ok with this.

@benjamindoerrmann9356 3 жыл бұрын

Thats the way it was then and often now

@totis1777 2 жыл бұрын

This a free version of events though, I don't remember if in reality in this case they actually did that, blaming someone else. I think it was known soon enough who did it because of the glasses and because Leopold's driver testimony.

@realistadelnuevoextremo 2 жыл бұрын

who cares😴

@MC32595 Жыл бұрын

they did??

@MC32595 Жыл бұрын

@@realistadelnuevoextremo clearly you do since you bothered to comment

@Autostade67 Жыл бұрын

If I have one criticism of this film (which I don't; I have several - but that's for another time) it is the line at 42:35: "Killing Bobby Franks together would join Richard and I for life..." Both Leopold and Loeb were extraordinarily gifted (as exemplified by Dean Stockwell's icy superiority in 'Compulsion'), erudite and highly accomplished. They also came from wealth. And Nathan was a polygot; there's no way in hell he would have said 'Richard and I" - he would have correctly said, "Richard and ME' as both 'Richard' and 'me' are direct objects that the subject the 'killing' is joining. Now a great many people would jump on me for plucking out this single detail, but it is this single detail that destabilizes the motivations of this film for me. I admire the use of anachronistic telephones alongside costumes which - for a shoestring budget independent film - are remarkably accurate to period, and aesthetically I accept most of Kalin's 'Brechtian' distancing devices, but a distrust in the intellectual reach and authenticity of the film erupts when this 'slip of the tongue' causes one to question what, exactly Kalin is attempting. By all means disagree with me, but the fact remains, Nathan Leopold would not have used 'I'.

@richardrosenthal796 9 ай бұрын

How about the guys' using touch-tone telephones in 1924?! They didn't come out until '63!

@davidsheriff9274 25 күн бұрын

Interesting comment, you're right ,a well educated and well read person would not make such an obvious grammatical error as that.