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Imagine after a hard work week , the weekend , you decide with the family, with your wife and children , to relax in the entertainment center Park Boulevard or Metro Park and go to the movies there.

Buy tickets for the movie "Life of Adele" and together with your children admire explicit scenes of lesbian love. For just a few manats on the big screen with beautifully fitted acoustics, you, along with your children can watch a frank eroticism and hear groans, moans and sighs of the loving couple. In front of you and your family in all its glory will appear not just naked women's bodies, but also candid shots of unconventional love. One girl caresses the other, bringing her to orgasm. Do you feel good? And forget about the children? Yeah, now wince? You do not like that they show all this mess to you and your (possibly even minor ) children? Right. It is a normal and healthy reaction of a parent who is responsible for the upbringing of his children. But it may well be. From Thursday in the capital's theaters Park Cinema (Park Boulevard) and Park Cinema (Metro Park) began the demonstration of a controversial film "Life of Adele" and this film is also about the awakening of sexuality, love and growing up as lesbians.

Before you say we need such films in wide release or not, let's define who we are and where we are going, that is, what kind of society we are building together . Today, the Azerbaijani public is not dissected into two, but a lot of camps. Someone preaches religion and Islamic values because for us, the main religion is Islam and the people are committed to this and the religion long ago found the answers to the question whether these are acceptable standards of behavior in society or not. They will never see this kind of movies. Another part of our citizens is in favor of building a secular society. Perhaps they would watch the kind of movie. But the respected managers of Park Cinema should not forget that morality has not been canceled. Right?

It is in France that the sessions of the film "Life of Adele» (La vie d'Adele) shot by the French director Abdelatif Keshish allow viewers from 12 years of age, but for some reason in the U.S. to see this picture only 17-rated are allowed and in Russia the qualification is 18 +. At the same time, Azerbaijan is not France, where in 1791 there was decriminalization of same-sex marriages. We are not France, where same-sex marriages were recognized in 2000 and the first such marriage was registered in 2013. Azerbaijan is a country where, after the airing of a local television program about the sexual orientation of one of the leaders of the opposition party , the society fermentation begins and while some people happily discuss the details of what they saw, the other part discusses with indignation and call for libel inadmissibility of such speculation in political games. And after that a scandal unfolds in the newspapers, on Internet pages and in printed local media. Azerbaijan is a country, where women's dresses and cute little faces of the actors in "Bu Sheherde" Joshgun Rahimov and Raphael Iskenderov in advertising billboards of Azercell cause a public outcry. At any rate, the interest has just warmed up after the MP Fazil Mustafayev said the advertisement, which depicts a man in women's attire, causes people to shame.

It is clear that today Azerbaijan focuses on precisely European democratic values​​. For all of us it is important to inculcate and develop primarily for ourselves concepts such as tolerance, freedom of expression and choice, etc. But is it worth while Park Cinema managers forget the mental characteristics of the Azerbaijanis, who are generally alien to this kind of manifestation? I emphasize, as a whole. Yes, someone will object and say that today it is enough to walk through the streets of Baku at night and it immediately becomes clear that nothing is alien to us - gays interspersed with lesbians managed by unknown ones. But maybe it's a manifestation of savagery and is a consequence of the silence by the public institutions that should conduct outreach to young people? Maybe what is happening is caused by the closure of the topics in the media? No, our media write about homosexuals and lesbians having fun, both local and foreign, but again, where is explanatory material about morality? Will this sufficiently amount to at least balance of that filth that spills out onto the reader on television and at cinemas, from the front pages of newspapers and the Internet?

I understand that all this seems very questionable. Especially for those who have long identified themselves as tolerant population. I also understand that today the Internet, which you can enter virtually from any cell phone, allows you to not only watch movies like "Life of Adele" , but also outright pornography. And the parents of children who buy this kind of mobile communication devices without carrying explanatory work with them on specific topics in advance should be prepared for the fact that one day the children will be very much of a surprise. Even the fact that they all of a sudden, out of nowhere, will manifest some unconventional talents. But one thing is the Internet search and getting information on some specialized topics, and another one is film with explicit scenes of love (especially non-traditional ) in wide distribution. No doubt this film will bring Park Cinema enough profit. But the businessmen would agree that here comes the pure principle of Azerbaijan «What about mothers and sisters? Is not that shameful?». Actually this is the mentality from which we, at all further Europeanisation, are not going socially anywhere. And is it necessary to move away from this?

And at the end, once more about the movie "Life of Adele". The director himself, speaking about his lesbian erotic creation, which, incidentally, won the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May, said: " I ​​am unsure that you can clearly organize such an intense and vigorous moment of life - intimate. There are so intimate scenes  so it is difficult to say something. I tried to make sure that they (the actresses) could feel free. From a technical point of view, there are not many ways to shoot such scenes. This is not gymnastics. We can guess what happens, when two bodies are intertwined with each other. Of course, we interacted with the operator and tried to make the camera movement organic as the movement of the bodies. But I did not ask for anything exact."

Think about it now. I would like you to realize if you want to watch the production of this operator with your family

ANN.Az