Saturday, January 21, 2012
TIME CAPSULE
Today's Gay Favorite film was the classic
Ground breaking, controversial, gay in your face document of the closeted life.
And we haven't shut up since.
There were years I could not look at this film as it seemed politically incorrect and then not and now, finally, a great sigh of relief to see it, acknowledge it and identify with it as true now as it was true then.
Self hatred is timeless.
So is alcoholism.
I now see the toughness of the one couple's love for each other. I see the identification of one man, a visitor, of the universality of the problem of loving others.
I can laugh at the quips and jokes. And I can feel the angst of the lonely man keeping himself lonely by attacking others.
Not pleasant to see but it is the disease of the modern world.
In fact, now, the startling fact is that there are many age old lessons imbedded in this film.
Some hard, some not as hard as they seem and others coming to life before out eyes in a sweet way.
It is great to come back to it.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
