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GIANT LTLE ON ENDG EXPLAED: WAS FRANKY REALLY GAY?
Sports play an important role the film, and we get a glimpse si the filmmakers’ perspective of the acceptance of gay athlet sports. For my money, I thought the film over-played the “homophobia” hand a b too much, particularly when me to the swim team. Would homophobia would be a thg of the past?
– homophobia is still holdg steady. At this pot, most mercial movi might pivot down one of two faiar paths – a g-out narrative which leav one of the boys exiled for his beg different, or a g-out narrative where the protagonist realis fiant self-acceptance is the key to livg a fulfilled gay life. Behrman’s tert probg the foggy greyns between fns of straight, gay or bisexual om personal experience.
“There was some fear about , I had all of this homophobia graed, that I’d grown up wh. Was Franky really gay? After a lengthy discsn, His father, who is gay too, draws the ncln that while he might not yet be fully aware of himself, he shouldn’t sh to fe himself.