Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Retro gay (80s)
Today's film was a recreation of the 80 gay scene.
Produced by James Franco, who also appears, goes back to the scenes for the film Cruising and supplies his idea of the famous segment that was cut so that they could get distribution. It fatally wounded the movie.
This is not the scene. No one has seen the scene. It is gone. But we do see and hear about the scene and, to some extent, it is created. I guess re-created since it did exist at one time.
This is a good, interesting film and is well worth seeing. It is not X-rated or, if it is, it should not be. It is pretty tame. And so was Cruising for that matter. Just before its time.
Franco is an interesting guy. He skirts around gay projects by expressing his desire to end censorship which is commendable. Some try and make something from this but his personal sexuality is not so much the issue as a belief that you have to be gay to do gay films. Balderdash. And, if he is a closet case, it is a great sublimation as his work benefits the gay population. A public service.
And lord, is he handsome and nicely spoken. He is well worth watching as are most other people in this, the people who he asked for help and gave it. These are the people who were suppressed and rejected, their work more or less forgotten.
I will give this a 4 out of Netflix5.
