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WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

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The movie’s “exclively gay moment” may be lour than the one “The Lighthoe, ” but ’s far more problematic, as Wai plays for edic affect to generate sympathy for his characters — queerns as shorthand for humany. Of urse, neher Wai or Eggers are gay, which is not to say straight filmmakers n’t or shouldn’t e queer elements their work. In Jojo Rabb (2019), both Capta Klenzendorf and Freddie Fkle’s self-ma uniforms have upsi down pk triangl, which is the patch Nazis would give to distguish homosexuals ncentratn mps.

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