Reverend was stupefied to discover in late November-early December various online articles and journal posts dismissing blackamoor Ford's gorgeous directorial debut A Single Man as having been \"de-gayed\" prior to its release. Most of these writers and bloggers hadn't seen the film, while I had and could attest that A Single Man (based on the occasion novel by Christopher Isherwood) isn't only the prizewinning gay-themed mainstream flick since Brokeback Mountain, but also goes its predecessor a travel further in that its multiple merry characters aren't self-loathing closet cases living hypocritical, double lives.
While martyr Falconer — the film's lead case beautifully brought to chronicle by the duly-acclaimed Colin Firth — is depressed and contemplating slayer à la some of his maladjusted, homosexual cinematic predecessors, it isn't because he hates himself. martyr simply finds it impracticable to continue living happily without his loved relation of 16 years, who was tragically killed a few months prior in a car accident. He finds renewed hope, however, finished a unify of junior merry men who represent a new, inferior repressed generation.
I don't know how A Single Man could mayhap have been \"de-gayed.\" Between the long-term same-sex relation at the story's heart, Falconer's intelligent lecture to his college students on society's need to identify and persecute minorities, Ford's keen visual and style senses, and the film's downright erotic moments involving blue-eyed, skinny-dipping, strip-teasingNicholas Hoult, A Single Man is not only the prizewinning GLBT flick of 2009, but one of the prizewinning films depicting our lives to date.
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Similarly smart and sexy, Little Ashes — which reveals the previously unknown romance between Spanish writer Federico García Lorca and surrealist Salvador Dalí — didn't get the wide release it deserved but will probable be embraced by merry viewers once it hits DVD later this month. And Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is an award-winning hit due in no small part to the insight and sensitivity of its openly merry director, Lee Daniels. Dedicated to \"precious girls everywhere,\" more than a few merry men are appropriately reckoning ourselves included.
By Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident flick critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
While martyr Falconer — the film's lead case beautifully brought to chronicle by the duly-acclaimed Colin Firth — is depressed and contemplating slayer à la some of his maladjusted, homosexual cinematic predecessors, it isn't because he hates himself. martyr simply finds it impracticable to continue living happily without his loved relation of 16 years, who was tragically killed a few months prior in a car accident. He finds renewed hope, however, finished a unify of junior merry men who represent a new, inferior repressed generation.
I don't know how A Single Man could mayhap have been \"de-gayed.\" Between the long-term same-sex relation at the story's heart, Falconer's intelligent lecture to his college students on society's need to identify and persecute minorities, Ford's keen visual and style senses, and the film's downright erotic moments involving blue-eyed, skinny-dipping, strip-teasingNicholas Hoult, A Single Man is not only the prizewinning GLBT flick of 2009, but one of the prizewinning films depicting our lives to date.
Honorable Mentions:
Similarly smart and sexy, Little Ashes — which reveals the previously unknown romance between Spanish writer Federico García Lorca and surrealist Salvador Dalí — didn't get the wide release it deserved but will probable be embraced by merry viewers once it hits DVD later this month. And Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is an award-winning hit due in no small part to the insight and sensitivity of its openly merry director, Lee Daniels. Dedicated to \"precious girls everywhere,\" more than a few merry men are appropriately reckoning ourselves included.
By Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident flick critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
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