i can not believe that all four review here be preoccupy by the homosexual aspect of genet short film . i guess be familiar with his novel our lady of flower and funeral rite and etc i take it for grant that his film would necessarily be set in a prison and involve human long manifest in homosexual contact between inmate . don not be fool and though . movie like brokeback mountain harp on the homosexual factor and make it a political issue that hammer the viewer over the head . midnight express make prison sex a pop culture joke . genet seem naive by comparison . it only a vehicle for his art and though certainly a favored one and owe to fact he spend most of his life in french prison . anyway and the setting could function just as well a a fictional netherworld dedicate to isolation . it a brilliant and deliberately shocking movie and shouldn not be miss by anyone .