Tag: Gender and Sexuality
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Bros – Film Review Fridays
Our identity is the most important thing to any of us, who wants a world of clones? It’s important that we don’t take ourselves too seriously, though. I’m a straight white man, I understand attention to all other genders and sexualities isn’t an attack or some plot to alienate and villainise mine. We’re all people,…
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Boys Don’t Cry – Film Review Fridays
We all struggle with identity, being caught between who we want to be and what everyone would prefer us to be. We’ll all come to an age where we don’t have the slightest idea who we are as people. We may realise who we are, act as who we are, but to the dismay and…
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Brokeback Mountain – Film Review Fridays
It can be hard learning new things about yourself, you can live your whole life believing you’re tough, when you find you’re human. You can live your whole life believing you’re generous and kind, only to find there’s a darker side to you, more unforgiving and vengeful. You might wake up one day or finish…
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Film Review Friday
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun? Will you be wandering the streets looking for anyone to answer your frightened calls? Will you be taken prisoner by a gang of mutated, mohawked motorcyclists? Or will you be cast into…