In editorial offices and workshops at the Berlinale and select partner festivals around the world, the participants of Talent Press work on features, interviews and longer essays about films and the film industry.
Under the tutelage of renowned film critics, the participants also deepen their knowledge of current trends in world cinema and discuss new roles for film critics and journalists within the film and festival circuits. In the next scene he meets a friend, and is persuaded to go to a ball. What follows is a party with older gay men dancing slowly. Instead of the strident sound, neon lights, crowded arena, diverse bodies and clothes of Mamba Negra to which the film suggested it might take us, we see a cosy saloon with smoky blue light, and a moment of approximation between Baby and his future sugar daddy.
While we witness aggressive, dirty and degrading images, to some degree in the criminal or sexual scenes, the image shifts to a lighter and cleaner tone in his life with the group and in his search for the family, resulting in effete and calm scenes. This approach is reminiscent of the style of a soap opera, mixed with an erotic crime movie. Abruptly, he returns to urban life, without further consequences. There is a mostly distant treatment in relation to the scenes depicting Baby with the vogue dance community Close Certo.
These sequences, although they express the marginality of the context through the intransigent banter and character details, do not achieve a radicality around their own marginality, in dance sequences that do not even register the whole bodies, in the line of buses or the chat in the square.
There is a control of bodies that do not seek control β and which would explode with their feelings on the dance floor. As Baby is an year-old boy who approaches the marginal world, but never goes the whole way, whether from maturing in a hostile place or from fear, the film approaches these same topics drug traffic, prostitution, marginal urban life from a distance, soberly, concerned to clarify its type-cast characters evil boss, elderly and romantic accomplice without embracing its own world on the screen.
