Brazilian film The Way He Looks is a trailblazg look at gay youth

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• 'THE WAY HE LOOKS' DIRECTOR DANIEL RIBEIRO TALKS GAY MOVIE
• WEEKEND STREAM: ‘THE WAY HE LOOKS,’ A GEM FROM NETFLIX’S GAY & LBIAN SECTN
• MY BF SENT ME A PHOTO OF HIMSELF AND HE LOOKS GAY AF. THE WAY HE POS AND DRS. I N'T GET MY MD. IT IS SICKENG. I DREAMT I HIM AND SET HIS BODY ON FIRE.
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'THE WAY HE LOOKS' DIRECTOR DANIEL RIBEIRO TALKS GAY MOVIE

His everyday life, the relatnship wh his bt iend Gvana, and the way he se the world change pletely wh the arrival of productn, box office & pany Vios2More like thisReview It pulled my you want to feel that Oh-my-God-I-am--love-for-the-first-time feelg, hunt down a py of this movie and fasten up your seat are a lot of movi out there that pertas to the burns of gay teenagers. Sometim gay men regnize each other as boys who were once lonely; aaid to say what exced them (or speak to who exced them); and sred to be themselv. This stant regnn--and stant empathy--might be changg as society be more acceptg of gay humany but n also bee the basis of solidary and, the se of the new Brazilian film The Way He Looks, an ocsn of ep feelg.

WEEKEND STREAM: ‘THE WAY HE LOOKS,’ A GEM FROM NETFLIX’S GAY & LBIAN SECTN

As a wishful fictnal nstct of our own youth, he may be a product of this open-tolerance, pro-gay era, but this aspect of personaly reprents an enuragg cultural fact: The Way He Looks should be a big h and should forever dispel the tenncy towards self-loathg monizatn that s so many movi about gays that pretend to be "hont" but simply give to shame, even when the filmmakers themselv should know better--like Gregg Araki and his unpalatable Myster Sk (unmysterly praised by the unevolved stat quo mastream media). The Way He Looks reprents the birth of gay self-acceptance on the mastream screen.

(If you thk this happened already you're misreadg Hollywood's var gay py parti. ) How Leonardo manag his shaken iendship wh Gvanna and negotiat the feelgs Gabriel keeps secret is a ttament to gay humany. ") By unverg youthful gayns, director Ribeiro and actor Lobo portray the root of passn.

Though the tone is different, this is a pann piece to Franis Ozon's masterly Young & Betiful, which was about a heterosexual girl's troubled disvery of erotic feelgs (although her seemgly gay younger brother suggted an emotnal tw).

MY BF SENT ME A PHOTO OF HIMSELF AND HE LOOKS GAY AF. THE WAY HE POS AND DRS. I N'T GET MY MD. IT IS SICKENG. I DREAMT I HIM AND SET HIS BODY ON FIRE.

Leonardo monstrat the self-sufficiency gay men learn as an everyday necsy. The film displays non-mdl empathy for a gay youth's pennce and nocence. Bis beg bld, there’s one other peculiary about our ma character: he’s gay.

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Both bldns and homosexualy are still taboos and objects of prejudice society.

In films, when homosexualy is not a problem terms of stereotypil character buildg, many tim is put as an obstacle the plot, which means that is necsary to overe prejudice or prove to society, iends and fay that beg gay is “normal”.

THE WAY HE LOOKS portrays homosexualy, but not as a central theme. No doubt Leonardo beg gay is a major aspect, but ls important than experiencg his first love, his first sir and all new experienc brought by adolcence.