I had the unfortunate dislpleasure of sitting through this movie today. It was so mind-bendingly awful that I had to see if I was alone in my opinion. Yes, this is a dreadfully old topic, but I'm just wondering whether the bits mentioned in the post were edited out of the version I just saw.
When he was in the bathtub, he was thinking about how badly his 'girlfriend' was singing with the dude that he hates...When he was 'cross dressing', he was either in disguise to escape his bully neighbour, or pretending to be an array of other people because he had no friends...When he was 'wearing tight clothing' it seemed to be more down to him being neglected by his mother and not being mentally capable of purchasing ones that would fit...was that generally the case, or was there more to it in a different version?
Unless there were scenes that were cut or reedited, I don't see how a movie where the whole point is that he's entirely obsessed with one girl can make the character a flamboyant homosexual...
Doesn't his behaviour just make him slightly eccentric and mildly stalker-like?
Essentially, having a high voice and gesticulating wildly doesn't put his genitals in to the orifices of another gentleman...
He thought Asian people stole his 'girlfriend'. There was an Asian lady on the bus. Don't remember any stereotyping...maybe someone could point it out...The only racial stereotype I can vaguely put my finger on if I try really hard is that it was the black guy in the pet shop that got the mace to the face...
As for damaging material, I agree to some extent. Damaging, in my opinion, were the scenes where he imagines his father figure to be John Cena. A father figure that (whilst trying to be nice and take care of him) continues to physically abuse him (throwing him over a table and smashing a vase over his head when he gives a response that his father disagrees with as examples) in every scene where they're together...
The fact that that's the kind of relationship he dreams of is relatively tragic...
Also damaging would be the general theme of the movie...Stalking a girl you like and creating elaborate lies will win her heart - when in reality it more likely leads to psychological trauma, restraining orders and prison...
Relatively complex themes and imagery are contained in this movie. It has the potential to promote conversation about such wonderful topics as sexuality, masochism, gender roles, alcoholism, autism, squirrel vs dog misinterpretation bias, whether it's ok for the black guy to always be one that gets maced, corporate privacy invasion, antipathy of emergency services personnel, why it's not ok to get naked in a laundrette, why service station workers are nearly always portrayed as stoners, are all ginger people evil and how social media is destroying the world...Amongst others....Depends on how much you interpret it...Or how long you can actually stand the squeaky voice before you want to punch the kid, I guess....
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