... feel sorry for Joe? He was obviously suffering from mental illness, and quite severely towards the final months of his life. Why didn't Patrick or any of Joe's associates get him some help? This tragedy could have been avoided.
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God Hates Fangs!
There's a slight suggestion in the film that he was addicted to slimming pills. So, a large part of his erratic and aggressive behaviour may well have been amphetamine-induced psychosis... I've had a little experience of someone with that and, believe me, you'd have to be a very brave person indeed to suggest to them that they needed help... There may well have been other factors involved - for example, I don't think we can underestimate how stressful being gay back when it was still illegal must have been... It is sad. But, in a way, he was lucky that some people hung around as long as they did - a person in that sort of state is not easy to be around.
shareThere's a slight suggestion in the film that he was addicted to slimming pills
1960s was not a time when mental illness or life crisis was usually met with anything other than pushing the person away or out of sight (sending them to a "home"). It is extremely sad. Unfortunately, mental illness remains today
more of a stigmatism or simply not diagnosed until tragedies happen.