Feel good movie about gay people never exists

Yesterday I went to a repertory showing at Film Forum, and if memory serves, that was my first time seeing it on the big screen. She pretty desperately hits on both Bill and Lloyd, after all, and those fleeting shots of her arm-in-arm with a deceitful flatmate and her lightly-charged banter with Phoebe, the high school girl who breaks into her apartment at the very end of the movie, are hardly definitive.

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Tellingly, nowhere to be found in that speech is anything, coded or otherwise, about a preference for your own sex. So what gives? I think the movie makes the most sense if you consider its understanding of homosexuality in three parts:. A susceptibility to, and a penchant for, blackmail Eve blackmails Karen, Addison blackmails Eve.

Homosexuality as homewrecking, homosexuality as blackmail, homosexuality as third wheel. Scheming to break up a straight couple? Lying about an imaginary dead husband? Tricking the lead into missing a performance so you can go on as an understudy, then being blackmailed into sleeping with the gay misogynist gay who helped to make you a star in the first place?

They ought to get married. The Chatner is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Put it another way: Any deviation from the correct target is gay. Having a husband is straight; loving your audience is gay.

What interested me the most this time around was how openly bad an actress Eve is. Actors have to understand things. The Chatner. Share this post. Copy link. Daniel Lavery. Oct 18, Less so in real life. Discussion about this post Comments Restacks. Natasha Dennerstein. Mike Oppenheim.

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