Humpday
Has anyone seen this indie film called "Humpday"? I somehow missed hearing about it and just picked it at random on Netflix. The idea is that these two hetero hipster guys who are bestest friends try to make a porn based on a dare, but they discover that they're just too gosh darn straight to go through with it, and everyone goes home reassured about who he already is. It really pissed me off. Once again, erotic attraction between men is just beyond the pale, something with which no regular guy could ever empathize. Homosexual desire (and thus those who experience it) is other, foreign, so decisively "not us" that it poses no threat and doesn't need to be taken seriously. And all this is presented in the the guise of total openminded acceptance. The director is a straight married woman with children, and I can only speculate uncharitably about what her motives might have been. It also seems that all the critics loved it. And it's not unengaging or poorly made (the fact that one of the actors is a walking hipster bear wetdream may fuel my feelings [see below]), but the underlying premise is really offensive.
