There are a number of documentaries made on the history of gayzinthemovies. My take has been than the vast majority have portrayed gays in four main identities: Objects to be laughed at, not with; self-made unhappy, inherently dysfuntional and sex addicts; incurring terminal illness or murder; or murderous psychopaths themselves. This one defines to the core the last one. What message does all this send to people?
What do virulent homophobes need to point to when we do it for them and ourselves? Extremes of well-justified homophobia, internal and external. We are supposed to feel good about our personhoods here?
I was initially hooked in by the portrayal of the struggle to love and care in face of past tragedy. As Caleb suddenly snaps into psychotic sadistic murderer, I felt as a viewer as pathologically manipulated and stabbed in the back as the protagonists.
I told myself I've made it through King Lear often enough, and there, understood the higher purpose of tragedy, as the Ancient Greeks created it, of catharsis of our fears and pain, of good wasted in the battle to overcome evil. Here we are left for dead. In every sense.
What do virulent homophobes need to point to when we do it for them and ourselves? Extremes of well-justified homophobia, internal and external. We are supposed to feel good about our personhoods here?
I was initially hooked in by the portrayal of the struggle to love and care in face of past tragedy. As Caleb suddenly snaps into psychotic sadistic murderer, I felt as a viewer as pathologically manipulated and stabbed in the back as the protagonists.
I told myself I've made it through King Lear often enough, and there, understood the higher purpose of tragedy, as the Ancient Greeks created it, of catharsis of our fears and pain, of good wasted in the battle to overcome evil. Here we are left for dead. In every sense.