Tuesday, April 10, 2012
SOMETHING HAPPENED
Todays gay film is Number 12 on the 5) Favorite list. gregg Araki's masterpiece
The bad boy grows up in this film which is coherent, touching, suspenseful and a whole lot more.
Two boys are connected by their experience with a child molester. Not an easy subject. But Araki wrestles it to the ground and keeps us on it until it is resolved. That is not a spoiler but it is important to know that this is an affirmation of human kindness in the face of human evil.
Very optimistic.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a gay hustler who remembers what happened and suffers because of this knowledge. Brady Corbet does not remember what happened and suffers because he has covered it up under a space alien cover story. Suppression.
After a long period of searching, growing up and trying to the erase the past, the boys meet and as Gordon Levitt promises, clear it all up in 20 minutes. Or have a start at it. Tender, healing.
This is a 5 out of Netflix5 for me. I have seen it before. And I will see it again.
Gordon-Levitt was a child actor in Third Rock From the Sun, another alien. I don't know if this was an inside joke in the casting of the film but it would work if it was.
