I like the movie that they were gay but the ending i think was to homophobic,it made it look like being gay was no way of life, not a very postive ending, but as someone said it was 1968
"I gotta get somewhere in this world. I just gotta"
I am not sure how come March realizing she was happier being straight makes the film homophobic. Isn't that about her personal choice? One she was entitled to make?
You are arguing from the specific to the general.
Sexuality is not a choice though. If she was gay she never would have had sex with a man. So I thought it was at least obvious that she was suppose to be bisexual. And yet they never explicitly say what their sexuality is, so it's not affair to assume what they were. But realistically, a gay person doesn't have sex with someone of the opposite sex, since they are not attracted to them. Would you be saying all of this if the film's genders were switched?
It's an observation made by the documentary The Celluloid Closet (1995), which includes a couple of brief scenes from the film, in the section detailing how common it was at the time for gays and lesbians to be depicted as condemned, as dying or being killed at the conclusion of the story.
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Yeah I thought it was obvious that only Jill was gay and Ellen was bi, otherwise she never would have had sex with the guy.
What is phobic about it? The lesbians certainly come across more sympathetically than the straight man, who is portrayed as predatory. This is a snapshot of another era, and I think it captures that era quite well.
shareWhat makes you think they were both gay? Ellen obviously wasn't, otherwise she never would have had sex with the guy. And yet they never actually say what their sexuality is, so we should never assume to know what they are. But realistically, Jill was the gay one and Ellen was the bisexual one. Would you be saying all of that if the genders in the film were switched?
I thought it was made obvious that Ellen was suppose to be bisexual, otherwise she never would have had sex with the man. But at the same time they never explicitly say what her sexuality is. So I guess we also shouldn't jump to conclusions.
But at the same time they never explicitly say what her sexuality is.