do any of you who reblog gifs from the dreamers know that it’s about an american student who went to france and tag teamed a french girl with the girl’s brother that she was also fucking before america boy showed up
Wondering if anyone’s seen this movie, “Brother To Brother” starring Anthony Mackie. It’s about, quote “a young gay black artist discovers the queer legacy of the Harlem Renaissance”. I haven’t really seen it on any of those queer poc film rec posts that circulate around tumblr.
- And Then Came Lola (2009)
- Another Country (1984)
- Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
- Bound (1996)
- Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
- The Boys in the Band (1970)
- Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- Brideshead Revisited (2008)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- The Bubble (2006)
- Butch Jamie (2007)
- But I’m a Cheerleader! (1999)
- The Celluloid Closet (1995)
- The Chinese Botanist’s Daughter (2006)
- Christopher and His Kind (2011)
- Chuck and Buck (2000)
- Cloud Atlas (2012)
- Farewell, My Queen (2012)
- Gayby (2012)
- Heartbeats (2010)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- High Art (1998)
- A Home at the End of the World (2004)
- I Can’t Think Straight (2008)
- I Love You, Phillip Morris (2009)
- Imagine Me & You (2005)
- Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
- Kiss Me (2011)
- Latter Days (2003)
- Lost and Delirious (2001)
- Loving Annabelle (2006)
- Middlesexes: Redefining She and He (2005)
- Milk (2008)
- My Life in Pink (1997)
- Mysterious Skin (2004)
- Nate and Margaret (2012)
- Orlando (1992)
- Paris is Burning (1990)
- Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
- Rent (2005)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2004)
- Show Me Love (1998)
- Transamerica (2005)
- Were the World Mine (2008)
- When Night is Falling (1995)
- XXY (2007)
- Zerophilia (2006)
I am not a smith
of fancy words, to be consumed
with tea after
mandatory politics discussion.
I am not a tailor
of ornate words worn by people
who have confused
dewy stars on the wintry sky
with mere diamonds.
I am but a sailor,
willingly carried away
by this monochrome sea.
Maurice (1987)
Maurice is one of my favourite period films, and like A Room With A View, it’s beautiful, perfectly acted and has a great big, aching heart.
I’ve always felt more for Maurice & Clive than for Maurice & Alec, since I feel the latter is more of a fantasy, a dream, rather than reality. Even though I’m also always glad Maurice gets a happy ending, at least for a while.
What would have happened if Maurice & Clive would not have been interrupted that first time in the squeaky chair? How physical would their relationship have become at that point? Clive is the instigator, but where would he have stopped? His belief in platonic love between men wasn’t something he came up with on a whim, but maybe his youthful passion would have taken precedent for once. If you look at Clive’s relationship with his wife (I love that Clive’s wife is portrayed sympathetically, it adds to the complexity), it’s very chaste as well. Seems Clive was a man with less need for physical love - or someone who’d learnt to control it so well he’d forgotten it ever existed.
It’s not hard to understand Clive, in spite of his abandonment of Maurice. He has responsibilities, family and a desire to belong. It wasn’t an easy choice in those days. Maurice doesn’t come from the same kind of family and Maurice’s choice in the end is one of exclusion; he and Alec won’t ever be able to live freely and openly. Also, I’ve always felt that Maurice & Alec’s relationship is (initially at least) more about Maurice finally experiencing physical love and getting a release for all his pent up desire than it is about love. Alec is a decent, clever and ambitious man, though. And maybe he and Maurice could make a life for themselves in some other part of the world.
Interestingly enough, as much as I’m a huge Maurice fan (and Maurice and Alec are my ultimate OTP), I actually do have an issue with how Maurice and Alec’s relationship is portrayed. The two of them meet, fall in love and have a strong physical connection, but we don’t really see much beyond that. We don’t often see them having meaningful conversations demonstrating that they are right for each other. I mean, Alec’s decision to miss his boat shows that he supports Maurice no matter what, but physical love can be deceiving. What if when they get past that honeymoon period, they find that they don’t actually know each other at all?
However … with all that said, there is a reason why I can forgive Forster. As many people have pointed out, Alec and Maurice’s relationship is like a fantasy, with the two of them having their happy ending, and I think that’s intentional. Nowadays, discrimination is still a very real threat for same-sex couples, but more and more countries are legalising marriage equality, and overall, the new generation is becoming much more supportive of gay rights than the previous one. I’ve heard many stories of LGBT people who have been rejected by their families for coming out, or bullied at school, but later their families learned to accept them, and these people eventually found love. Here in 2014, as hard as it still is in many respects, finding love, and living a happy, fulfilling life is an actual possibility for gay people. Turn the clock back 100 years, and the best a gay person could realistically hope for was to not get caught by the police. Maybe if they were lucky, they could marry another gay person of the opposite sex, and find a lover on the side, but their relationship would have to remain secret.
Good artists create art in order to understand the world we live in, and even if some of it is fantastical, it helps keep us sane. Forster was often cynical about the state of gay rights, even after 1967, but he still desperately wanted to believe in that happy ending, which I guess symbolised a better world that seemed unattainable in his lifetime. That’s why I’ll always keep coming back to this story, because at the end of the day, that fantasy ending is about hope.
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