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WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’
So for the purpos of this his “sgle shot” technique, the specifics of the plot do not matter so much as the unrlyg nnotatn: homosexualy. Miller his say “Anal Rope” ppots how the transns erotilly reveal the homosexual relatnship between Philip between David, but more importantly the hidn inty of the gay male. This is the vatn to wonr, acrdg to the film, what is gay sex?
’ One is the populary privileged se of gay male sex, the orifice whose sexual e general opn nsirs (whatever happens to be the state of sexual practic among gay men and however may very acrdg to time and place) the least dispensable element fg the te homosexual. In this sense, Rope is the gaze of society to a mirror whose post war disillned reflectn star back at self self-nscly, ambiguoly unr the veil of homophobia. Reprsed the shadows of the low-key lightg of noir, homosexualy uld be suated and nied jt as easily as uld be veloped.
In the mask of nnotatn, the existence of homosexualy is portrayed like a Hegelian dialect: where the possibily of homosexualy is opposed by the possibily heterosexualy and the mutual ntradictn rencil to a higher tth that only the viewer n discern. In this se, nnotatn is the rult of a cyclil ambivalence of gay culture.