Saturday, June 23, 2012
TIME CAPSULE
Today's gay film was
Gay because Ginsberg is one of the indisputable fathers of gay liberation. And he was a very sexy dude. An affair with Neal Cassidy, some nips of Jack Kerouac and a life partner in Peter Orlovsky. All out in the open.
This film is teary in the nostalgia of it. And its relevance to now. Mostly First Amendment rights.
James Franco is a very credible Ginsberg. Very well done. Great. Thank you.
You have to see this movie not because it is gay in any way (not much really) but because it is what makes your life what it is today. Fighting the bastards of conformity and oppression.
Ginsberg was a great guy and oddly straight in many ways. Square. He had some success as an adman. I saw him once at Symphony Hall in Boston just walking around in the intermission. What a jolt.
They had a show of his personal photographs in Provincetown one summer. He wrote little captions on all of them. I think that they are available in his archives.
This film is a 5 out of Netflix5.
