Tuesday, January 15, 2013
METRORETRO
Today's movie was Morgan Spurlock's documentary
Silly and superficial and fun.
This shortish documentary takes a look at male plumage in many of its forms. Facial hair, hair hair, non-hair, cosmetics, all the shit that men are doing to look good and possibly feel good.
It is interesting that despite the presence of actual gay men as talking heads there is very little talk about gay men and their weird practices at all. Mostly about straight butch guys who are trying to embellish their manly presentation to the ladies.
The tables have been turned.
There is one instance where a guy says "attractive to men or women" in a kind of grudging acknowledgment of gay attraction.
Very little of this is serious or even meant to be. Mostly it is funny, sometimes hilariously so. In the true spirit of a modern documentary there is no critical commentary. Just show and tell.
I cannot say that I came away from this with any information that would be of any use at all except for one thing.
I realized that many guys wear a colored or patterned t-shirt under a regular collared short or long sleeved shirt. I will want to do more than that. Clothes are not once mentioned. Well, a bit.
Mostly it is a bunch of guys having fun. Or we have fun watching the guys make asses of themselves.
No. I would not want to see this again but I am sort of glad I saw it once. It is sort of a long teevee program.
What don't they show? Shaving the bush. Nothing about piercing, not even ears. Nothing about clothes. I said that.
Nothing about gyms, trainers, muscles. Nothing about cosmetic surgery.
They did talk about me. Facial hair, mustaches, body shaving and that most of this is really to please one's self.
I did like the toupee part. I recently ran into a guy who is fairly open about having a hair piece and it is so good it is impossible to tell that is what it is. It even has some kinda spare spaces. Little hairs that stick up, not perfect.
See? I can go on and on. It is obvious that I got a lot out of this film. Like a lot of guys I just wouldn't want to admit it.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
Oh. One more line I went for:
"Real men don't tweet".
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