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[lovelylove_85]

Hello Everyone! I am new to both the shelter_diner community and live journal and just wanted to say hi! I have recently watched and become deeply obsessed with the movie Shelter and am so excited to find some people who seem to love it as much as I do!

Really I could talk about it all day, but I wanted to start with a topic that has always made

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[justaotherwitch]

Yay discussion! Welcome

[jasmine661]

My impression of Shaun's hating Laguna came partly from it being a conservative area and him feeling like being gay wouldn't fit into the family image. He did move to LA/Hollywood, after all, which is more accepting of gay lifestyle.

[pjvilar]

I agree with the other posters. The book seems to be called, or have something to do with 'Pacific Bluffs' and we learn from the CalArts voicemail Zach receives that Shaun's family's address is in Ocean Beach, so Pacific Bluffs seems to be a pseudonym for Ocean Beach. It's also possible their are some mystery/crime/adventure elements in the first book, just because it seems like the new book Shaun is working on has those elements, but certainly the two could be unrelated. I think it makes sense, too, that a first novel would be totally drawn from the author's own life, and then it might be hard to figure out what to write about next.

Welcome aboard!

[exeterlinden]

Interesting topic!

I get the feeling that Shaun wasn't born into the Ocean Beach/Pacific Bluffs lifestyle, and that he doesn't care much for it. When you look at the character, he looks a lot different than Gabe in his clothing, hair style and attitude.
My feeling is that Shaun's probably much more of a free thinker, partly because of his sexuality that must have made him think much more about alternatives to the lifestyle he was raised, but also because he's a writer and made the decision to move to L.A.
So, yeah, like justaotherwitch said: a Desperate Housewifes kind of thing, picking apart and critisizing his stepdad's lifestyle. And the conversation between them makes me think that there's a crime plot of some sort, for some reason, but I can recall why, right now :)