Was It Good For The Gays: ‘Keep The Lights On’ | Decir

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• "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON": A GAY BREAKTHROUGH, AND A GREAT MOVIE
• MDG THERAPYMENTAL HEALTH AND POP CULTURE MEETMA MENUSKIP TO PRIMARY NTENTSKIP TO SENDARY NTENTHOMECONTACTABOUT (SORT OF)NOVEL “MDG THERAPY”SCREENPLAYDISCLAIMER/PRIVACY/COMMENTS POLICY SEARCH POST NAVIGATN ← PREV NEXT →“KEEP THE LIGHTS ON”: ILLUMATG COPENNCY A GAY COUPLE
• GAY THEMED MOVIEZ
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’

"KEEP THE LIGHTS ON": A GAY BREAKTHROUGH, AND A GREAT MOVIE

It's not about what means to be a gay man. It's about problem is that proclaims to the world that we gay men are self-centered, self-dulgent, dg-crazed idts and the self-centered, self-dulgent idt men who "love" them. The gay men who gh about how REAL this movie is mt be like the on portrayed .

MDG THERAPYMENTAL HEALTH AND POP CULTURE MEETMA MENUSKIP TO PRIMARY NTENTSKIP TO SENDARY NTENTHOMECONTACTABOUT (SORT OF)NOVEL “MDG THERAPY”SCREENPLAYDISCLAIMER/PRIVACY/COMMENTS POLICY SEARCH POST NAVIGATN ← PREV NEXT →“KEEP THE LIGHTS ON”: ILLUMATG COPENNCY A GAY COUPLE

Thank God I don't know any of the rmatn of straight rears: gay men like the on this movie are a ty, TINY, signifint, pletely negligible mory who do not any way reprent the muny as a whole.

The percentage of gay crack addicts is no greater than the percentage of straight crack addicts, and ALL of them are jt as borg as the two this movie are. Most gay men are jt like straight men, except a ltle smarter and wh better taste sex four stars are for Thure Ldhardt, a betiful man every way, who plays gay characters better than any gay actor I n thk of. I first saw him the Danish movie Brorskab (Brotherhood), which his excellent, subtle performance was overshadowed by electrifyg Swedish actor David Dencik the most powerful portrayal of a gay man I've ever seen.

GAY THEMED MOVIEZ

The wrenchg gay relatnship drama "Keep the Lights On" may also be the year's bt Amerin film. While "Keep the Lights On" is plenty explic on the subject of gay sexualy, ’s not an NC-17 picture and has relatively ltle nudy. As the filmmaker discsed a recent New York Tim terview, while he has lived an openly gay adult life his films (cludg the 2008 “Married Life, ” wh Patricia Clarkson and Chris Cooper) have primarily ncerned heterosexual relatnships.

Rather, 's a lovg but fearls portra of gay urban life at the turn of the century, seen through the prism of one dysfunctnal love affair. This movie may serve as a marketplace tt for gay-themed films the wake of crossover hs like Lisa Cholonko’s Osr-nomated “The Kids Are All Right” and Andrew Haigh’s Brish die smash “Weekend. ” It also may measure how far the gay muny has e on issu of self-reprentatn.

While seems unlikely that bigots and homophob would actively seek out “Keep the Lights On” (except, you know, on the sly), any who do see uld certaly cherry-pick tails to support the this that Erik's entire dre of humany are generat.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’

Here is: “Keep the Lights On” is a landmark work gay cema, New York cema and Amerin cema.

Sachs’ characters are specifilly and regnizably gay, no doubt about ; but that’s not anywhere close to an aquate scriptn. It's an unsttg relatnship drama about two guys who fall love the most tolerant and diverse metropolis Ameri, surround by supportive gay and straight iends, and manage to screw all up wh dgs and crazs and horndoggery. I’ve heard suggted that “Keep the Lights On” is a vert portra of the sts of homophobia; other words, that Pl and Erik wouldn’t act so crazy if our society weren’t so severely polarized around qutns of sexualy general and gay sex particular.

As Sachs has said, he’s tryg to pict a New York society that has evad the movi until now, which affluent, amb urban like Pl and Erik are not fed by their sexualy (central as is to their liv) and do not live a “Boys the Band”-style gay ghetto. Geoly photographed moody, gray hu by cematographer Thims Bakatakis, “Keep the Lights On” also featur songs by unrground New York mic legend Arthur Rsell (who died of AIDS 1992), and an ternal tribute to photographer Avery Willard, who documented New York’s gay muny the mid-20th century. Romance | Homosexualidad.

G., of NEXT Magaze: “Fet Brokeback Mounta; Keep the Lights On is the grtit and most heartbreakg gay love story of our tim. ”Watch the trailer below:Andrew O’Hehir, Salon, acknowledg: “…(T)his movie may tt how far the gay muny has e on issu of self-reprentatn.

While seems unlikely that bigots and homophob would actively seek this film out (except, you know, on the sly and stuff), any who do see uld certaly cherry-pick tails to support the this that Erik’s entire dre of humany are generat. It is a tailed dissectn of the a tug-of-war gay relatnship between Erik and Pl, which soldiers on almost a the prent-time (1997-2006) Ldhardt, the Danish out-of-the-closet actor who has shown the immense stretch the sk-head gay-romance BROTHERHOOD (2009, an 8/10), transforms himself to a young immigrant documentary director Erik livg NYC, probably sex-addictive, met the dandy boy Peter (Zachary Booth), first time for sexual terurse, then the mutual attractn brgs both to a relatnship plex, which enpass an overt hdrance, Pl's dg-addn, a cliché flt even mak for the nsistent trappgs of gay life, thanks to the barren soil of the 's hard not to pare this film wh last year's die darlg WEEKEND (2011, an 8/10), both stand out among other numero lser achievers, but very disparate ways. Neverthels, both films have a crackg two-hanr st, this se, Ldhardt and Booth are fervently sued to their tailor-ma rol, pecially Ldhardt, lerally rri the film on his shoulrs to elaborate a not-so-extraordary script, I do hope he will not be stereotyped to the gay-actor-n-never-act-straight tegory for his future reer.

This movie is "homophobic" and "mak look like all gay men smoke crack"? In no ntext whatsoever was tentnally signed to pict gay men as satiable for plats that basilly go back to verisiu: people, 's an die flick, and a super- low-budget one at that.