50 Years Later, the Film 'Gay Deceivers' Is Still Very Gay, Very Bad

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• FILM REVIEW; HE'S NOT GAY BUT PRETENDS TO BE. CHAOS ENSU.
• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

FILM REVIEW; HE'S NOT GAY BUT PRETENDS TO BE. CHAOS ENSU.

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Contemplatg suici, his new next-door neighbor nvc him not to and up wh a scheme to prevent the firg--pretend to be gay and then they will be aaid to fire him for fear they will be acced of discrimatn. The job is saved, but a long seri of events (good and bad) rult major unforeen chang--some of which are very funny (such as his beg asked to ri on the ndom float at the gay pri para) and some are pretty poignant (his gettg beaten up for beg gay).

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

After a discsn wh his new neighbour, Pignon fabrit photographs that make himself look unniably gay – th preventg his employers om sackg him whout makg look like they did due to his sexualy.

When he ' out', the mours start but his job is safe – fact, the management move to clamp down on the behavur of one of the management team who is homophobic.

Worried for his own job due to his warng, Felix Santi is nvced that, orr to f wh the pany le on homosexualy, he mt be pecially nice to Pignon and show how morn he is. The plot allows for the film to look at the way that homosexualy has changed over the s to the pot now where is acceptable and yet still looked down upon (but not openly public – that is not PC!

It also manag to brg other threads volvg Felix's homophobia, a thread that starts out beg very funny but later be que touchg and lite. A ic ltle fool that grows on the dience and velops as a person over the duratn of the film, he plays well and is nicely unrstated – I hate to thk how Hollywood will al wh a character pretendg to be gay: terrible mp clichés (Will & Grace, Birdge) will be much more likely than anythg else. The suatn (probleme of homosexualy beg or not beg ed as a way of firg or not firg someone)relat very much to today and the average spectator will be able to relate to the scen of the film pecially if he or she works an office.

I left the theater amazed at how well the var facets of the plot f so well together that remd me then of a Che wood block puzzle; now, a week later, that still seems most is _not_ a movie about beg gay; that's only the gas that fuels the r that tak the people on that trip. And ncts a simple plan to keep his job: pretend he is hook here is that by beg openly gay the man would be able to claim he was fired by the gay bashers at the factory.