Tens of thoands of gay men and lbians were persecuted by the Nazis but stigma and a lack of rearch fundg has kept their history hidn.
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THE HOLLYWOOD STRAIGHTS ARE MAKG BAD GAY MOVI AGAFESTIVAL GAZEOPNPHOTOS URTY TIFFARMED WH GOOD TENTNS AND OSR HOP, BOTH MARK WAHLBERG AND VIGGO MORTENSEN STAR NEW LGBT MOVI THAT, YET AGA, ME QUEER PA AND TRAGEDY FOR HETERO REMPTN.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED SEP. 16, 2020 4:38AM EDT GOOD JOE BELL IS THE KD OF FILM WHICH EVERYTHG OM THE SCREENPLAY TO THE PERFORMANC AND THE STORY THAT ’S BASED ON ARE ALL MELTED TOGETHER SOME CEMATIC BLACKSMH’S SHOP TO FE A SLEDGEHAMMER SPECIFILLY MEANT TO PUMMEL YOUR HEART TO PIEC.THE FILM, WHICH PREMIERED THIS WEEK AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL, CERTALY DO JT THAT—THOUGH THE WAY WIELDS THAT CLUB, LIKE OTHER FILMS AT THIS YEAR’S VIRTUAL EVENT, RAIS SOME NCERNS ALONG THE WAY. THE BTE FORCE MISS THE POT.IN 2013, JAD BELL, A 15-YEAR-OLD LA GRAN, OREGON, MTED SUICI AFTER THE HORRIFIC BULLYG HE ENDURED BEE HE WAS GAY. THE TRAGEDY GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN AT A CRISIS MOMENT FOR YOUTH AND GAY BULLYG AND THE ALARMG SPIKE LGBT+ TEEN SUICI RAT. BELL’S STORY BEME EVEN MORE HIGH-PROFILE SIX MONTHS LATER WHEN HIS FATHER, JOE, EMBARKED ON A WALK ACROSS AMERI OM OREGON TO NEW YORK CY, WHERE JAD ONE DAY WANTED TO END UP, ON A MISSN TO RAISE AWARENS FOR THE DANGERS OF BULLYG AND START A DIALOGUE ABOUT CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE. JOE’S WALK END WHEN HE WAS STCK BY A TCK ON THE SI OF THE ROAD COLORADO, DYG AT THE SCENE. IT’S HEARTBREAK POUND BY HORROR AMPLIFIED BY DOOM, A WRENCHG TALE THAT SCREENWRERS LARRY MCMURTRY AND DIANA OSSANA, RNG 15 YEARS AFTER THEIR OSR-WNG BROKEBACK MOUNTA SCRIPT, WRG EVERY POSSIBLE TEAR AND TRMA OM. IT’S BOTH CLEVER AND CEL THAT THE FILM, DIRECTED BY REALDO MARC GREEN, BEGS THE NARRATIVE WH THE FANTASY-FULFILLMENT OF JAD EMBARKG ON THE WALK WH JOE, AS IF WERE A BONDG JOURNEY FOR A FATHER AND HIS GAY SON WHOSE RELATNSHIP TURNED ROCKY AFTER THE G-OUT; A WALK TOWARD FIVENS, UNRSTANDG, AND AMENDS. ESPECIALLY IF YOU WEREN’T ALREADY FAIAR WH THE BELL STORY, THE CRASS “TWIST” THAT THE JAD YOU’RE SEEG WH JOE IS MERELY A SPIR GUI AND THAT THE TEEN ACTUALLY HANGED HIMSELF A SCHOOL PLAYGROUND SIX MONTHS PRR SWGS LIKE AN EMOTNAL WRECKG BALL. THERE’S A LITE WALL ERECTED BETWEEN HUMAN SIGHT AND THE EXPLOATN OF QUEER PA, AND THE FILM BASH STRAIGHT THROUGH . IS POSSIBLE TO DO THE MENTAL AND EMOTNAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED TO NTEXTUALIZE THIS MONUMENTAL TRAGEDY OF A GAY TEEN AND THE LGBT SUICI EPIMIC THROUGH THE GAZE OF A STRAIGHT DAD’S MORAL REMPTN? JT AS THEY DID WH GREEN BOOK’S RACE RELATNS, WE EXPECT DIENC WILL BE MORE THAN AGILE THAT REGARD. THERE’S VALUE THAT EMOTNAL SATISFACTN.BUT SPEAKS TO THE HERENT TENSN THAT A FILM LIKE THIS IS PLITED TO DISCS.THIS STARTED BEFORE THE FILM EVEN PREMIERED AT TIFF, WHEN WAS ANNOUNCED THAT MARK WAHLBERG WAS ST AS JOE BELL. A NOTORLY MACHO HOLLYWOOD STAR LIKE WAHLBERG IS EXACTLY THE KD OF STG EXPECTED AND ARGUABLY REQUIRED FOR JOE, AND THE FILM IS CENTERED AROUND THE ACTOR’S ENGAGED AND EPLY FELT PERFORMANCE. BUT THE OPTICS STILL SEEM QUTNABLE TO MANY. ADVERTISEMENT ON TWTER, PEOPLE POTED OUT LONGSTANDG MORS THAT WAHLBERG ALLEGEDLY TURNED DOWN BROKEBACK MOUNTA BEE HE WAS “CREEPED OUT” BY THE NTENT OF THE SCRIPT. RECENTLY, AFTER HE POSTED SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIV MATTER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MENTERS LLED OUT HIS PAST HATE-CRIME NVICTN. WAHLBERG HAS SPOKEN OVER THE YEARS ABOUT HIS REGRET, EVOLUTN, AND PATH TO REMPTN, AND ARGUABLY THAT PATH ULD CLU AN ART-IMATG-LIFE ARC LIKE THE ONE JOE BELL JOURNEYS THIS FILM. THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE. “THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE.” WHETHER ANY OF THIS IS A ROADBLOCK TO ENJOYG OR BEG TOUCHED BY THE FILM REMAS TO BE SEEN. THE ACTG, PECIALLY OM NEWER REID MILLER AS JAD, IS EXCELLENT. AND WE SPECT NARROW MDS WILL SURELY BE OPENED BY S POIGNANT, IF HEAVY-HAND, MSAGE, JT AS WE EXPECT THERE TO BE EXASPERATN OVER THIS BEG HOW THIS STORY IS CENTERED AND TOLD. IT’S TERTG TO LOOK AT GOOD JOE BELL AS A PANN PIECE TO FALLG, WHICH ALSO PLAYED AT THIS YEAR’S FTIVAL. (FATHERS AND THEIR GAY SONS ARE REALLY GOG THROUGH THIS YEAR AT TIFF.) ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM WAS WRTEN, DIRECTED BY AND STARS VIGGO MORTENSEN. IT NTU S FTIVAL N AND AWARDS HOP AFTER A BUT THIS WTER AT SUNDANCE, AND IS SCEPTIBLE TO THE SAME CRICISM AND PRAISE THAT MAK GOOD JOE BELL SUCH A LIGHTNG ROD. AS HE TOLD VARIETY, MORTENSEN WAS SPIRED TO WRE FALLG AFTER THE ATH OF HIS MOTHER, A TRAGEDY THAT FOUND HIM SPELUNKG BURIED MEMORI OF LIFE WH HER AND HIS FATHER, REMEMBRANC THAT WERE THEN TRANSPOSED THROUGH THE LENS OF A FICTNAL FAY BEE, HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, “AS THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER FRANCIS BAN ONCE SAID: ‘TTH IS SO HARD TO TELL, SOMETIM NEEDS FICTN TO MAKE PLSIBLE.’” THAT FICTN IS THE STORY OF A GAY MAN NAMED JOHN, PLAYED BY MORTENSEN, LIVG CALIFORNIA WH HIS HBAND AND THEIR DGHTER. HIS FATHER IS SUFFERG OM THE ONSET OF MENTIA AND IS STGGLG TO KEEP UP THE FAY FARM ALONE, SO JOHN BOTH HOSTS HIS DAD CALIFORNIA AND STAYS WH HIM AT THE FARM. THE SUDN PROXIMY FORC THEM TO NONT THEIR NTENT RELATNSHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN LORED BY HOMOPHOBIA, RENTMENT, AND ABANDONMENT. LIKE GOOD JOE BELL, IS AFFECTG. THANKS TO A TOWERG PERFORMANCE BY LANCE HENRIKSEN AS JOHN’S FATHER, ULD BE AN EYE-OPENG ENTRéE TO THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF TWO MEN FORCED TO EVOLVE TOGETHER RELUCTANTLY, BOUND BY FAY DUTY AND BOND TO FD MON GROUND THE FACE OF SPE, ANGER, AND HURT. YET THERE ARE ALSO STRANGE OPTICS HERE.WHY, FICTNALIZG HIS FAY’S STORY, WOULD MORTENSEN MAKE HIS STAND- CHARACTER GAY, TH FORCG ALL OF THE DRAMATIC TENSN TO ORB AROUND HIO, BIGOTED OUTBURSTS OM HENRIKSEN’S CHARACTER? HE SPEWS AN ARTILLERY OF HOMOPHOBIC, EMASCULATG, AND OFFENSIVE DIALOGUE THAT, WHILE BELIEVABLE FOR A CHARACTER OF HIS AGE AND UPBRGG, IS NOHELS UPSETTG TO WNS AND HEAR. ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM IS A STRONG DIRECTORIAL BUT AND REHGLY UNPRETENT. BUT WHY THIS PARTICULAR BRAND OF UGLS? WHY THIS STORY? THE NVERSATN OF WHO SHOULD BE TELLG THE STORI OF THOSE WHO ARE MARGALIZED AND UNRREPRENTED IS A PLITED AND ONGOG ONE, AND NEHER OF THE FILMS ARE GOG TO SATISFY THOSE TIRED OF WATCHG THE STGGLE FOR QUEER ACCEPTANCE FILTERED THROUGH STRAIGHT CHARACTERS’ JOURNEYS AND CRAFTED BY STRAIGHT CREATIVE TEAMS. THAT SHOULDN’T WHOLLY DISUNT ANY OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FILMS, BUT ’S A WORTHY NSIRATN. THE TTH IS THAT GOOD JOE BELL DO SPEND TIME FLASHBACKS ATTEMPTG TO ADD HUMANY AND NTEXT TO JAD’S LIFE BEFORE HIS SUICI, THOUGH THOSE FLASHBACKS ARE RELENTLS THEIR NEGATIVY AND TRMA. AND A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO PROCSG HIS SON’S ATH AND WHETHER HE WAS SUPPORTIVE ENOUGH WHEN HE WAS ALIVE IS A VALID AND EARNED STORY, PECIALLY WHEN TO JOE BELL, WHO TRANSFERRED THAT TERNAL RECKONG TO A PUBLIC-SERVICE MISSN BEFORE HIS OWN SUDN ATH. WE’RE STCK BY HOW, EVEN A VIRTUAL AND SMALLER-SLE FTIVAL SEASON, THERE ARE ACTUALLY A BREADTH OF OPTNS WHEN TO THE TELLG OF QUEER STORI, A SUATN WHICH ALLOWS FOR MORE EXPANSIVE THKG AND GENEROSY THAN WHEN THERE ARE ONLY ISOLATED PROJECTS TO WATCH. FRANCIS LEE’S AMMONE, STARRG KATE WSLET AND SAOIRSE RONAN, IS REHGLY SUAL AND ANK ABOUT SIRE AND SEX. IN ADDN TO BEG ONE OF THE STRONGT FILMS PLAYG AT TIFF THIS YEAR, SUMMER OF 85, OM FRENCH DIRECTOR FRANçOIS OZON, IS A SUMPTUO AND SIGHTFUL LENS TO THE UNSETTLG AND VIGORATG THRILL OF TEEN SEXUALY AND LOVE. ADVERTISEMENT THERE’S A LOT TO CHOOSE OM. THE QUTN IS, AS ALWAYS, WHAT WILL—AND WHAT SERV TO—BE AMPLIFIED. KEV FALLON
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