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Drag Queen + Asian Guy

posted 16 years ago by joethewonderboy
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what was up with that? we saw them three times i believe...well, her twice, him three times (last time he was crying on the boat/bus/something)....just wasn't sure what it was all to mean.

anyone have any bright ideas?

[–] Ageispolis 15 years ago

i thought the exact same thing...
can't help you though

"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."

[–] puschit-1 15 years ago

I can't say for sure but I think they were added just to have yet another human relationship in the background. It shows that gay people do have the same problems as hetero couples have (I think he cried because of jealousy, maybe the drag queen cheated on him). Maybe it was added to show that not all gay people are like David (just *beep* around without having a relationship).

[–] fotoman98102 12 years ago

I took it a completely different way.

I took it as a way to show that we often pass by the same people over and over, yet are completely oblivious to their lives. Think about it, how many times did that couple pass through the lives of the main characters, yet not have a single clue as to any of the action going on around them. Just like how the main characters went around, largely oblivious to the murders going on around them.

[–] WarpedRecord 12 years ago

There were many interesting detours in this film, and that was one of the better ones. I noticed them only twice — in the supermarket and on the park bench (assuming it was the drag queen out of drag).

As others have said, it drove home the larger point that while a serial killer walks the streets, everyone is too tied up with their issues to care or even notice. I suspected the Asian guy had just been diagnosed as HIV-positive, judging from the theme of this film. It's a pretty heavy-handed juxtaposition with the serial killer, at least from today's perspective, but it seemed entirely fitting in 1993.