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Living in a confining, rented apartment in Martha's Vineyard, Madeleine and her roommate, Fergus, joust with each other intellectually and sexually after drinking a hallucinogenic tea that Fergus purchases from a street vendor. Madeleine finds frustrations in her paltry job, over-bearing summer theatre director and contradictory impulses towards flirting and serious involvement. In a series of bizarre dreams, she draws in Fergus and other characters from her closed world. In his own dreams involving a mysterious dancer, Fergus explores his frustration in his bisexuality, his inability to finish his book, and his exhiliratingly passionate nature...
...when Madeleine and Fergus find that it is each other that they want, the confluence of their hallucination leads to a cataclysmic end, when both are left without the friendship they had once trusted, drained of their former illusion of security at least in each other...
Davidson plays Dil, a pert London hairdresser on the brink of an affair with Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA man who held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...woods outside Belfast, a black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything...
...wife, Delours Price, was an IRA hunger striker convicted of car bombings 20 years ago. "The whole nature of my country has been in question," he says. "If you use an army to solve a problem -- the British army, for example -- violence is inevitable. That is what people like Fergus fear, and that is when they start to become people that they don't want to be." The Crying Game, for which Rea was named best actor by the National Society of Film Critics, gives Fergus the chance to be something better: "I see the movie as redemption through suffering...