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Is the Fred character supposed to be gay?


Is the Fred Character supposed to play a closeted gay person?

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And also - what made the Emily chracter decide that she did not want to be with Fred any more?

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She just finally realised that he was just taking advantage of her.

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I don't know if you picked up on this as well or not, but I thought the film was hinting that Fred was being sexually abused by his dad. From both, the scene with how his dad acted with Teddy and when Teddy told Fred about it Fred replied "my dad's not gay", as well as the scene towards the end with Fred ranting at the drug dealer about why being the guy is not necessarily better than being the girl during sex...I could be wrong though.

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That's an interesting point you made and I did not pick up on it while watching the movie. Now that you said that though, it kind of makes sense.

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Not wrong, that's completely it.

And that was the reason he manipulated and was such a piece of crap to that Emily girl, because he learned it from his father.

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