not really the movie itself is problematic just it deals with Really Shitty Themes
IDK what to make of it cuz i thought all these actors were straight af
@vahnj (And we were all so desperate for 'representative' media that we ate it up anyway. Uuuugh)
@indi i don't know how to feel about it
maybe it *was* ok to do, and it stands as an example of what *not* to do now
but i don't know
@vahnj That's how I look at it (and, e.g. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, same thing, years earlier, not to mention RHPS)
Like, you have to view all these things in context, and accept that they were helpful for folks at the time, but at the same time is has to be okay for them to be UNHELPFUL for folks now.
Context is everything. The more context the better.
@indi 👌
can I boost this
@vahnj Absolutely. :)
@vahnj Yeah they are. Yay, the 90's, when that was apparently a super-okay thing to do. >.<