First, I am not a homophobe. I didn't find the movie horrible because it was about a gay man. I AM a gay man.
I found it terrible because after he died, I didn't give a toot. I loved his grandmother. But nobody had anything human to say. The script was pretentious crud. There was no emotional sense to any of it.
He impregnates a woman with her husband right there. It was so creepy and sickening. The whole plot device felt hollow and calculated. And it appeared the couple was discussing aborting the child as they left him the last time. Total manipulation.
He throws away everyone in his life and holds them all (to a lesser extent even his grandmother) at arms length as he wastes away. He uses sexuality as a way to interact with family, frightening his poor Dad. What a sad, stupid person. I wouldn't walk across the street to spit on him if he was on fire.
And I had to pay to see this waste of oxygen finally left alone (as he wanted and so richly deserved) on that beach. Narcissistic from the word go. He was a jerk before his diagnosis. He was a narcissistic twit during his illness and died a loathsome isolated shadow.
And that they made him gay only added insult to injury. I don't think there are enough movies about gay folks that I want to waste any on someone so loathsome.
Do I think there are folks like this in the world? Sure. But I don't want to waste my time watching movies about them.
If you want to see a GREAT movie about a gay man who runs into his younger self (another poorly executed device here that only pays off when he sees his younger self kissed by his little friend), one that has power and depth, see The Hanging Garden directed by Thom Fitzgerald. That film had human emotions, and shares a LOT with this movie in terms of subplots, but it has recognizable human beings and bracing dialogue.
My advice? Avoid this like the plague, see The Hanging Garden instead.
I found it terrible because after he died, I didn't give a toot. I loved his grandmother. But nobody had anything human to say. The script was pretentious crud. There was no emotional sense to any of it.
He impregnates a woman with her husband right there. It was so creepy and sickening. The whole plot device felt hollow and calculated. And it appeared the couple was discussing aborting the child as they left him the last time. Total manipulation.
He throws away everyone in his life and holds them all (to a lesser extent even his grandmother) at arms length as he wastes away. He uses sexuality as a way to interact with family, frightening his poor Dad. What a sad, stupid person. I wouldn't walk across the street to spit on him if he was on fire.
And I had to pay to see this waste of oxygen finally left alone (as he wanted and so richly deserved) on that beach. Narcissistic from the word go. He was a jerk before his diagnosis. He was a narcissistic twit during his illness and died a loathsome isolated shadow.
And that they made him gay only added insult to injury. I don't think there are enough movies about gay folks that I want to waste any on someone so loathsome.
Do I think there are folks like this in the world? Sure. But I don't want to waste my time watching movies about them.
If you want to see a GREAT movie about a gay man who runs into his younger self (another poorly executed device here that only pays off when he sees his younger self kissed by his little friend), one that has power and depth, see The Hanging Garden directed by Thom Fitzgerald. That film had human emotions, and shares a LOT with this movie in terms of subplots, but it has recognizable human beings and bracing dialogue.
My advice? Avoid this like the plague, see The Hanging Garden instead.
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