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REVIEW: GAY G-OF-AGE STORY ‘MIL’ GETS BY ON PELLG CHARACTER
Well to beg, anythg sexual was a taboo durg this time, pecially homosexualy. In Turn of the Screw there is no blatant acts or speakg of homosexualy or even sexualy. At the time homosexualy was ed an “evil” act society and was even agast the law.
Mil would then have a nnectn to Qut bee of his assumed homosexualy or his not so okay relatnship wh Qut. ” Miss Jsel uld be the Governs’ homosexualy wantg to e out and her not lettg due to societi view on homosexualy. Today we have gay marriage legalized and more fluid and open to homosexualy then ever.
One popular speculatn on the nature of Mil's transgrsn is that he ma ments of a homosexual nature to some of his fellow stunts—those that, as he says, he "liked. It was a time of dial-up moms and AOL Instant Msenger, and this story, the archaic ter accs functns as a lifele for a gay, movie-obssed teenager, Mil (Tim Boardman), who n’t wa to bt out of Sprgfield and make his way to the big cy: his stern father (Stephen Root) sudnly pass away, leavg Mil and his mom, Pam (Molly Shannon), pennils, his dreams of film school and urban livg are sudnly jeopardized.