Thursday, December 22, 2011
THREESOME
Today's gayfest film was Ang Lee's
Gay films often use the farce template in which a gay couple is about to be visited by out of town parents, who haven't a clue they are gay. The gay guys decide to hide who they are.
How they do this and how they resolve it is the story of the film. We will probably see five more films that have this premise.
Ang Lee chose to use a different approach. He has toughened it up from farce to a serious multiple culture clash. But a funny clash.
Lee never wavers in staying on track and keeping all the circumstances in working order.
The wedding banquet in question is a great piece of major league comedy.
Everything eventually falls into place as expected but the real deal in this film are the terrific performances of all the cast. One pleasure is that the stereotypes, all of them, Asian, gay and so on are dispensed with and, while it is a unique set of issues, they are all very human ones.
This was Lee's first American film and was rather successful. The beginning of a long list of great films here.
We saw it before and it got a five the first time which means it is still a five out of Netflix5.
Labels: gay films
