Monday, February 16, 2015
More glances
Today's movie is iconic.
It is one of the best of the earliest gay films as well as all that come after.
Steve Buscemi stars as a gay man with AIDS and his young friends who help him out. He, in turn, helps them come out.
I have seen it many times and do not get tired of it. It always seems fresh and pleasing at just about every level.
I am not sure but I believe it was the first of the happy gay films that celebrate the lives of happy gay men. Sure, there are problems. Certainly the prospect of AIDS is not a pleasant one but the film pretty much shows how most gay men are able to integrate living with this disease into an otherwise happy life.
There are a few closet cases for contrast. Out and about wins.
This was Buscemi's breakout film. He is true to the source and the subject and gets to the heart of how many gay men lived in the 80s.
I have seen it many times. Countless. I never get tired.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
