Why are 'gay' movies SO depressing ???
Other then Jeffrey, I can't think of ONE that doesn't leave a sense of sadness ?
I didn't think this film was depressing.I found it to be both funny and educational.It ask's the question, "what if there was a cure to sexuality?"In the end the film really gave us the answer.While it may work for a time, there is no cure for who we are.No matter how many pills he took, in the end he just couldn't be happy being someone other them himself.And it left a very warming ending when he looked up at his original love interest and the film faded to dark and his homo-meter was back to where it was normally.
This film was very much a love and life story.It addressed the question of what if there was a cure and really explored the fact that sexuality is more then just impulsive desires.And no amount of pills and treatments can truely affect the heart or the soul and in the end we are who we are, we love who we love, and we are attracted to who attracts us...A very uplifting movie....
And I have identified with the main charactor before.I know what it feels like to question what is beyond clubs and bathhouses.If there real love?Does everything gay have to be so over the top?Can I ever find someone who finds me as attractive as I find him and can it be more then a one night stand or a few months of passion?In the end I discovered that, yes, there is more to being gay then the sum of what we see.And while a "cure" might sound appealing to end the question of whether or not we would want to be considered "normal" and "happy" I have found that how I feel about myself is what matters most..This film said that very nicely....
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Wow, interesting. I wonder how we could have seen the same movie but seen 2 different films.
I got from it was he was miserable or at least sad and lonely being gay, had an opportunity to change and was even more miserable being straight and was forced to go back being gay where he was still sad.
Tim completely abandons his friends when he becomes straight, they aren't going to have anything to do with him once he becomes gay again.
We differ at the ending with the kiss with Matt. Matt has had the courage to come out and express his attraction to Tim but Tim completely rejects him. Matt's looking at Tim like "How can you literally push me away after what I did". Tim isn't looking at Matt like he finally has someone, Tim has a look of even though he has the object of his affection he's still not happy with being gay.
The only character that seem to make it to happiness at the end is Sally, well and maybe Joey I don't recall if he was still with that guy at the end but even towards the end he was questioning the relationship.
"I have found that how I feel about myself is what matters most"
Hmmmm, maybe that says something about me, I don't realize, perhaps that's why I saw it differently.
Thanks for the insight.
"I got from it was he was miserable or at least sad and lonely being gay, had an opportunity to change and was even more miserable being straight and was forced to go back being gay where he was still sad"
First, he was lonely and insecure as a gay man.I understood that.So he thought if he was straight he would find happiness.And for a time he thought he did.But he was NOT forced into going back to being gay.You might have missed all the scences where he clearly was having attractions to men WHILE taking the 'pill'.It was only after a series of events and his own realization that he had no choice but to stop taking the pill or risk being a-sexual permanently.Second, rewatch the last five minutes and really focus on his gaze at his original love interest.Then look at the 'Homo-Meter'.As the film ended his 'Homo-Meter' showed us that he returned to who he truely was.I didn't find that confusing or sad.What was sad to me was it took so many unfortunate choices and experiences to lead him to understand who he was......I guess I can see where the writers were trying to go with this..
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