Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 1, 2017 21:41:51 GMT
I remember posting about this movie a little while back in some detail. My sentiments are basicslly that outside of some strengths, like the opening sequence and some affective effects, it's a pretty ludicrous and and amateurish entry that mostly makes me laugh at it more than anything else.
I think the idea of a teen character fearing that he is gay and having-a-secret-monster-inside-of-him angle could have really been an interesting and thoughtful approach, but interesting and thoughtful are not terms I would use to describe the execution of this film.
They didn't have the conviction to actually go with that, so they skirted around it by not making him literally gay within the text of the movie and just made everything around him not so subtly homoerotic.
I believe the director denies that he was trying to explore gay themes. How he defends the idea that this kid sneaks put of his house at night and can't help but to secretly wander into an s&m leather club, runs into his sadist gym teacher, follows him back to school, ties him up in this showers, strips him naked, and brutally towel whips his bare ass would be beyond me then.
Even setting any sexual connotations completely aside, that sequence is one of the most absolutely ridiculously nonsensical series of events one could possibly come up with.
I think the idea of a teen character fearing that he is gay and having-a-secret-monster-inside-of-him angle could have really been an interesting and thoughtful approach, but interesting and thoughtful are not terms I would use to describe the execution of this film.
They didn't have the conviction to actually go with that, so they skirted around it by not making him literally gay within the text of the movie and just made everything around him not so subtly homoerotic.
I believe the director denies that he was trying to explore gay themes. How he defends the idea that this kid sneaks put of his house at night and can't help but to secretly wander into an s&m leather club, runs into his sadist gym teacher, follows him back to school, ties him up in this showers, strips him naked, and brutally towel whips his bare ass would be beyond me then.
Even setting any sexual connotations completely aside, that sequence is one of the most absolutely ridiculously nonsensical series of events one could possibly come up with.