Post by gameboy on Nov 19, 2020 3:02:11 GMT
Of course it was a product of its time. Now you know I rail against Will & Grace. But it makes me long for one silly episode of that show without out all the undercurrents of systemic hate in this movie.
And though the director was gay, he was as much a victim of this internalized homophobia as are we the cringing 21st century queer viewers.
But as I said before, the murder of his john is just more moralistic indictment that our love can only end in death.
Here's the scene with the kid where we are assaulted with the flashback of his glorious heterosexual romance as compared to his sleazy sex in a movie theater. It just makes us queer folks remember how much we've been assaulted with this heterosexist brainwashing all our lives.
I don't really politicize or idealize MC, than just accept it for when it was made, which I think was also very daring for its time. The look of the film is quite modern as well, even today, that it could be considered a period piece. There is so much more going on in this film than just nitpicking for homophobic attitudes which still exist today and only shows how dense the heterosexist can be.
Toasty, watch that video clip of the Cowboy and the Kid one more time. There is a furtive attempt for two men to make love. It's tawdry and shallow and unfulfilled. Yet all the time the Cowboy dreams of his perfect female lover. The Kid blows him and ends up puking in the toilet. This is why I said the film is homophobic.
This is the message queer kids have received over and over for generations: Homosexuality bad and it makes you puke. Heterosexuality good and it makes you happy.