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

The premise, that orr to keep his job a lourls ltle acuntant has to pretend that he is gay (a very tongue cheek ment on prejudice here) - the n of worms that he opens up has many aspects, both good and bad. He is ignored at work, and fds out through the grapeve that he has been next-door neighbor talks him out of suici and up wh a plan to save his job: if Mignon pretends to be gay, the pany will not want to look homophobic by firg plan works perfectly, and Mignon is thrown to a number of creasgly ridiculo suatns, now that he is reputed to be film wraps up quickly and ti together almost too neatly, but the endg fs the fast paced ic style of everythg before . 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). 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.