Thoughts on "A Single Man"
I went to see "A Single Man" because I thought it would be a rather good film. It was about a gay man attempting to get over the death of his long time partner in the 60s.
I didn't like it very much. There were some very artistic and beautiful shots, but it just wasn't thrilling. The homophobia of the time was dragged out, there was less internalized homophobia than there were in actual 60s movies; but the homophobia was overt. I don't know I feel like we have to up the ante with movies. If you're going to point out straight people's homophobia, you have to do it in a different way. Show me something new.
It was a good film about sadness, and about giving up, and about grief. But the men didn't have to be gay, the film would have made just as much sense with two women or with heterosexual people.
It's interesting though that they don't make movies about older lesbians. We're not sex objects anymore, so you can't sell us to straight people, so you don't put us on the screen anymore.
Not that you can sell older gay men to straight people. But this one still had a national release, but perhaps that was because the message was universal and not just oriented to the gay community? And all the men were beautiful?
Food for thought.
I didn't like it very much. There were some very artistic and beautiful shots, but it just wasn't thrilling. The homophobia of the time was dragged out, there was less internalized homophobia than there were in actual 60s movies; but the homophobia was overt. I don't know I feel like we have to up the ante with movies. If you're going to point out straight people's homophobia, you have to do it in a different way. Show me something new.
It was a good film about sadness, and about giving up, and about grief. But the men didn't have to be gay, the film would have made just as much sense with two women or with heterosexual people.
It's interesting though that they don't make movies about older lesbians. We're not sex objects anymore, so you can't sell us to straight people, so you don't put us on the screen anymore.
Not that you can sell older gay men to straight people. But this one still had a national release, but perhaps that was because the message was universal and not just oriented to the gay community? And all the men were beautiful?
Food for thought.