Sunday, November 22, 2015
Take 1
I was never a Star Trek fan but I sure am a fan of this guy.
In many ways, George Takei is a role model for gay men and, as it happens, for oriental men. He is a two-fer.
This is made abundantly clear in the film I saw today.
From bit Asian player in movies to Star Trek to the Broadway stage, Takei has had a varied and successful career.
This film tells a lot about that and also about what moved him to come out as a gay man.
It is an inspiring film.
Look, he spent some of his early life in an internment camp in Utah or someplace awful.
He has the happiness of a person has has known real pain and has converted it into joy. A character study really.
The makers of this doc have done a very good job. Nothing is in the way of Takei. And that is as it should be. Like a good biographer disappears, so should movie makers.
A 5 out of Netflix5. I will be buying the DVD.
Labels: documentary, films, gay films, television
