This movie is so trashy i don't even know where to begin.
First if you know anything about the Stonewall Riots you are going to hate this movie. It takes the real heroes from the real life story and replaces them with a White, "Straight acting" protagonist. They were also the words of the director not mine, who i was shocked to find out was actually part of the LGBTQ community because from watching this film i honestly couldn't tell.
It is really, really offence to take Marsha P. Johnson out of the spotlight and just have her as some character that shows up and just farts around doing nothing. She started it along with some of her other friends not this random boy who shown up in town and is now everyones hero.
I honesty can't believe they thought this would fly. I understand that they wanted to include this character that they made up but there are other ways to do it. They could of had him looking up to Marsha or Stormé DeLarveri who was also a figure in the uprising. He didn't need to be our "Hero" we could have just been on the journey that these people were on with him.
There are other issues like the elitism that the main character has like he thinks he is better than these other characters. It was just garbage.
If you are interested in learning the actual story about the riots or a bit more about Marsha please watch The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (2017) it is o Netflix or if you are wanting to watch a "True Story" LGBT movie please watch Pride (2014), it is a great movie and doesn't take as much liberties as this movie and doesn't White Wash actually real life hero.
First if you know anything about the Stonewall Riots you are going to hate this movie. It takes the real heroes from the real life story and replaces them with a White, "Straight acting" protagonist. They were also the words of the director not mine, who i was shocked to find out was actually part of the LGBTQ community because from watching this film i honestly couldn't tell.
It is really, really offence to take Marsha P. Johnson out of the spotlight and just have her as some character that shows up and just farts around doing nothing. She started it along with some of her other friends not this random boy who shown up in town and is now everyones hero.
I honesty can't believe they thought this would fly. I understand that they wanted to include this character that they made up but there are other ways to do it. They could of had him looking up to Marsha or Stormé DeLarveri who was also a figure in the uprising. He didn't need to be our "Hero" we could have just been on the journey that these people were on with him.
There are other issues like the elitism that the main character has like he thinks he is better than these other characters. It was just garbage.
If you are interested in learning the actual story about the riots or a bit more about Marsha please watch The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (2017) it is o Netflix or if you are wanting to watch a "True Story" LGBT movie please watch Pride (2014), it is a great movie and doesn't take as much liberties as this movie and doesn't White Wash actually real life hero.