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Dreams for Rent

posted 17 years ago by affinado
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Mmmmmmmm!!!

I have seen 'Hustler white' tonight and found it pornographic, bit empty, really bad shot, with apparently nothing to tell, and AMUSING!

Indeed, I guess the ironic endeavours of Bruce LaIdem are basically the glorification of some queer cinema in which he believes he's got a message to pass on: in fact, there is nothing to tell, apart from being this one a well-researched documentation/film [IN THE FLESH!] about male prostitution in Tinseltown, what the heck, another fine reason to visit California.

Yes, we all hate Bruce LaIdem, he thinks he's a witty Canadian gay filmmaker who shouts, screams, yell out to the world that gays are criminal, chiselling little crooks, miserable and ADMIRABLE pieces of human condition.

Well, I am gay and haven't killed anyone yet.

Now that I come to think, maybe the whole porn tape, i.e. 'Hustler white' is a pseudo-intellectual mockery on and about Versace's killing?

Affinado Fallatio

[–] haxan-1 16 years ago

You should probably speak for yourself on this. It might not be the movie that's shallow and reactionary. It might be your take on it.

Maybe you could ponder it as a nod to the underground and 42nd street smut movies of the 60s? Willingly raunchy gayspoitation? A modern-day version of pre-hardcore grindhouse movies that usually featured only heterosexual characters? The antithesis of neutered mainstream gay Hollywood and European features like "Jeffrey" or "Too Wong Foo" (the sort that La Bruce has gone on record as hating) that always rely on saintly drag queens, lovelorn party boys and suicidal/self-loathing gay martyrs?

[–] iainhammer 15 years ago

well said, haxan-1