Arrebato is about the loss of self by way of addiction, cinephilia, compulsory heterosexuality, and the creative process. Arrebato says QUEER AS IN - I WANT TO DIE!
For those who agree that a movie is much more than a plot, please rejoice because I can best describe Arrebato through a series of contradictions.
Images both shore up and break apart our sense of self.
Pedro develops a sensitivity where certain images cause him to go into a state of…
When the ground slips under your feet, the one to catch you or push you ever lower should be someone you love very much. Only then everything gets some meaning.
SYIHMD is about 3 souls trapped in purgatory, at times struggling against or falling into the flow of the cycles they've been doomed to repeat. Its literally purgatory. Afterlife is just like their earth life, only no one can grow, learn, or change.
At times, Vera and Elsa can remember.…
I have a lot of thoughts on hj slander... Skill and imagination issue imho... Maybe even heteronormative who knows... But this was funny!
I hate being contrarian, but I have to be honest: I did not enjoy Demonlover. I do not think it communicated clearly in a technical sense and what it did communicate I did not find especially meaningful.
I like the idea of a monotonous, droning film about desensitization to violence in a globalized world. Its not the visual drone I mind, but the bleak sensationalism that the film relies on for its emotional impact.
I’m bored of the porn as…
Cruising is not a procedural or an expose of the queer underworld. Cruising is about a repressed man encountering the fundamental ambiguity of his sexuality. The film's technical flaws are outweighed by the strength of its ideas.
I loved the pure acres of flesh on display, the desanitized hairy queerness from a lost era of public sex. I loved watching Al Pacino’s eyes flush with (reportedly very real) discomfort with gay sex. I loved the way Cruising never resolved the…
