Given vs Taking Sides
Given has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Given is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 48m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2020). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Given
Taking Sides| Given | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.3/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, Music, Romance | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Hikaru Yamaguchi | István Szabó |
| Main cast | Takuya Eguchi, Yuma Uchida, Masatomo Nakazawa, Shogo Yano, Shintaro Asanuma | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
Synopsis
Given
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute…
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