a surrealist narrative?? yeah! but let’s make it extremely obvious, just to be 200% sure that everyone connects the dots
after the screening, so many gay people were crying. aand i’m here for it!! i’m glad they have this, this thing that reaches for them, wraps around them, says: i see you, that there’s a film that portrays internalized homophobia and loneliness
when I watched this movie with my mom in 2008 (I was 7 years old then), I fell in love with the songs. my mom burned them onto pirated CD, and I sang them on repeat!!! over and over and over again!! what I loved the most was coming home from school - after finishing my lessons (i was a model student back then, duties first, then fun) - and going all out!!! dressing up, smudging on makeup, teasing my…
i watched this movie after "in broad daylight", so it helped me piece things together. it was very warm, wholesome, and relaxing, like a good bath. it showed the dynamics of a micro-society within a bathhouse, and it really reminded me of a story from the book "ministry of moral panic". in the story, an anthropologist, for research purposes, created laundromats that were also meant to address the community's needs, bringing people together. i was thinking, random reactions in different…
