It seems that coming-out dramas are an evergreen subject for movies. How could they NOT be when even out and proud gay men must continually come out to a society that automatically assumes any non-effeminate man MUST be straight?
In this tale we don't REALLY ever get a coming out by the protagonist. And why should we? It's really his business after all, not ours.
Yes, he's got a gay father. Yes, his boyhood friend has outed him. But the fact is the main character learns through the course of the film that he doesn't need to fit into anyone else's little gender preference criteria but his own.
As a side note: This is also the first film I've seen where there was an on-going friendship between a guy and his (probably trans) friend that as close as the one shown here.
Thankfully, there is one old-school cinema stereotype that is missing from this film. None of the homosexuals in this film are fated to die in the end or even end the film in some pitiful state.
In this tale we don't REALLY ever get a coming out by the protagonist. And why should we? It's really his business after all, not ours.
Yes, he's got a gay father. Yes, his boyhood friend has outed him. But the fact is the main character learns through the course of the film that he doesn't need to fit into anyone else's little gender preference criteria but his own.
As a side note: This is also the first film I've seen where there was an on-going friendship between a guy and his (probably trans) friend that as close as the one shown here.
Thankfully, there is one old-school cinema stereotype that is missing from this film. None of the homosexuals in this film are fated to die in the end or even end the film in some pitiful state.