"En kort, en lang," is a film about a 'happy' homosexual couple living together in Denmark. We see Jacob, a promising architect, who is usually a spoilt brat having all what he wants. On one of his birthdays, he askes his partner, Jørgen, to marry him, which Jørgen accepts by announcing it in the birthday dinner toast. Their friends are nothing but stereotypical flame queens and such, and I could not help but to wonder about Jacob and Jørgen, and how they look straight compared to their friends. One would think that birds of same feather would flock together anyhow? In any case, everyone is drunk, and Jacob shares a lusty kiss with his partner's sister-in-law, Caroline. Of course, nobody has seen them, except for the queenie Frederik who captured the moment unintentionally with his Polaroid.

As Jacob and Caroline tries to write it off as a drunken deed, Jacob starts grappling inside himself on what he wants. In Jørgen's toast to the group, he told a story of Jacob's love for horses, and how his mother brought him to some horse farm, asking him to choose a horse. Jacob had his eyes on two horses and wanted both. This was but a foreshadowing of Jacob's desire for both Jørgen and Caroline. Furthermore, a horse is brought back into the story in the very end, which somewhat refers back to this original speech at the birthday party.

During one of the frequent encounters between Jacob and Caroline, Caroline discloses that she is pregnant, and that makes Jacob a very happy father despite the fact that it would ruin lives around them. Jørgen finds out about this affair through a clue in the house, and he keeps quiet, until when he finally confronts Jacob about it at Christmastime. We see Jacob acting the typical man who has been caught cheating; promising his partner that he would stop it and that he loves him so much. Yet, he keeps seeing Caroline. I could not help but to feel hatred for Jacob, writing him off as some slime lowlife bum.

I found the film to be quite implausible, even if the ending was quite strange and funny at the same time. The ending kind of kills the whole story in my opinion. I don't know which audience the film is trying to appeal to; a straight audience who wants nothing but to laugh at kitschy, stereotypically gay characters, or a gay audience watching for a romantic comedy? Looking at the movie poster, it claims to be one of the top movies in Denmark at that time... perhaps it is something about Denmark that I do not know about, that causes me to have difficulties in fully appreciating this film? I give this film 1 1/2 stars.