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dharnold-1
I am also a fierce atheist who battles with the religious and enjoys it. I particularly enjoy battling with religious homophobes. And anti-evolutionists.
Reviews
Chambers (2019)
Heart Transplant? How did she afford that?
We all know what a vile and uncivilised shlthole the USA is with regards to medical costs- and people who are panic stricken about taking an ambulance to the hospital because of the cost!! So, how did a poor family afford a heart transplant? The father confessed (when he's trying to persuade his daughter to go to college) that they've almost lost their house on several occasions due to lack of money.
How did they afford a heart transplant?
Sex Education (2019)
A GREAT SERIES!
I hope this is renewed for 2nd series, as I want to see what happens to the characters!
Everyone else has covered the main topics so all I want to say is I like the way the gay characters are treated, very non stereotypically. And the end episode is a real surprise for the main gay character with a very surprising twist, although those who are alert will have seen it coming!
Alex Strangelove (2018)
Disappointing. I'd say homophobic
SPOILER: I was really looking forward to seeing this having had all the pre_release hype. But I've finished watching it and I'm feeling annoyed and disappointed.
It started off very well as we are introduced to the main characters as Claire and Alex are best friends, but Alex is scared of having sex with her, and we don't know why. But we Do!
And the gay element in the form of Elliott is introduced, and our main character realises he finds Elliott attractive and a budding relationship starts. But then it all goes off the rails. And the story becomes one about how disappointed Claire is, and Elliott just disappears from the story until the end
Things that really annoyed me were the straight sex was portrayed in gory detail but all we get of the two boys is one chaste kiss that turns into hysterical homophobia
A shame cos this could have been a good film. Definitely a wasted opportunity and a waste of a budget that could have more usefully been spent on a better gay project
Mannen som elsket Yngve (2008)
A Dated And Homophobic Film That Pretends Otherwise
This film has a very dated feel about it, it's almost as if it were made in a much more homophobic time rather than in 2007. Whilst it's set in 1989 it has that gay-equals-miserable-ending, gay-equals-death-aspect that curse so many state funded Continental European gay films. I mean come on, if films like "Maurice", and My Beautiful Laundrette" which were genuine 80s films, manage to portray a gay positive ending, why on earth can't this film?
Why do I say it's homophobic? Because if the hero had fallen in love with a second girl, as well as his girlfriend, would the film have ended as it does with the suicide attempt and the boy in a mental institution? Would the hero have acted that way towards his secret love at the party? - If the hero's secret love were a girl, what would the hero have shouted at her? "Oh, you bitch, you heterosexual bastard", "Do you think I'm straight?" No, no, the miserable ending was utterly homophobic and inexcusable. Totally inexcusable.
This film reminds me, for some reason, of a 70s US film called "A separate peace" in which the gay love interest has to die! But that film was from the 70s, and was written during the 1940s, when gay writers were riddled with internalised homophobia from the society in which they grew up.
The failure of the love affair was because of the writer's self-homophobia and inability to see the logic through to its end.
Now, if the ending had been happy that would have made for a much braver and much more interesting film. Can you imagine if the hero had fetched his lover from the mental institution and they'd walked out together and publicly and openly proclaimed their gay love to their former girlfriends and friends and school mates? That would have been a much better film.
There were good aspects to the film. I liked the fact that both boys were not that attractive, not muscular, were average boys. I liked the way the relationship with the mother and the father and the girlfriend were portrayed. But I was waiting all the way through for the happy ending, for the boys to declare their love for each other and for this reason I was so disappointed with this awful, miserable, ending.
OK, you may say, "Well that wasn't what the author was trying to say". Well, what was the author saying? What was the point of the film? Was it just to reinforce the horrid view that gay love always ends in suicide and death and mental illness??? And further, why would the Norwegian film board, or whoever put the money up for this, fund such a gay-negative film? Is the Norwegian film board homophobic? Were there really no gay positive films to fund?
Overall, a most disappointing film and yet it had the potential to have been so much better.