Joel Wendland wrote:
>> I disagree with the conclusion here. I agree with the observation
>> that the events were isolated, but that is part of the film's irony
>> and tragedy: imagine all of that space and being completely alone,
>> cut off from any LGBT community, so full of self-loathing you can't
>> even link your personal feelings and actions to some movement
>> somewhere that wants to help you liberate yourself. So profoundly sad
>> and emblematic.
>
Yes, emblematic...one might even say, iconic of that great, big, free,
wide open, frontier driven U.S. whose reality, for many, is that of
solitary confinement. That is one of the points of the movie.
Joanna
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