Thursday, August 15, 2013
yo mama
Today's film is one of the great homoerotic epics yet never really hailed as such.
Alfonso Cuarón's great road movie with Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal and Maribel Verdú.
The queerness of the film pervades every foot of the film with the actual payoff in only about 20 seconds near the end.
Fear of the reality leads to, well, go see it. Rent it.
At one level the film is very funny. Two adolescents work out their stuff through the girl who, deliciously, is leaving one of their hated cousins. An asshole.
A lot of funny lines.
Parts are sad. Or tragic. A running commentary outlines history and future about the people, places and situations we are seeing.
Glimpses of the two tier society, the police state, intrude at various points during the trip reminding us that this fantasy come true visit to a fantasy beach which turns out to be real exists in the middle of great suffering.
This one is a five. I have seen it four times or more. Always fresh and new. I swear that they add new parts between the times I see it. Could that be? No. It is just that rich as it reveals its layers to us.
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