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- WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH
- THE BTERSWEET TALE OF CAPTA KUNPICKG THE TRAGEDY OF JOJO RABB’S GAY NAZICEE ARR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIV·11 M READ·OCT 21, 2022--1SHAREGIF: VIA TENORWARNG: DUE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE FILM JOJO RABB, THIS POST DISCS: WAR, NAZIS, HLER, THE HOLOT, BIGOTRY, DOCTRATN, WAR CRIM, CRIM AGAST HUMANY, EXECUTNS.SOME OF THE SCEN AND/OR EVENTS SCRIBED NTA EPLY UPSETTG MATERIAL.THIS POST ALSO NTAS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM JOJO RABB.JOJO RABB IS A FILM ABOUT A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY GROWG UP THE DYG DAYS OF NAZI GERMANY.
WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH
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. Both movi e om wildly ventive filmmakers wh styl so specific their films n feel like their own mi-genr, but they share half-baked gay subtexts that fall short of their amb visns.
In a story about two men on a serted island, the homoeroticism is practilly baked to the log-le.
THE BTERSWEET TALE OF CAPTA KUNPICKG THE TRAGEDY OF JOJO RABB’S GAY NAZICEE ARR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIV·11 M READ·OCT 21, 2022--1SHAREGIF: VIA TENORWARNG: DUE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE FILM JOJO RABB, THIS POST DISCS: WAR, NAZIS, HLER, THE HOLOT, BIGOTRY, DOCTRATN, WAR CRIM, CRIM AGAST HUMANY, EXECUTNS.SOME OF THE SCEN AND/OR EVENTS SCRIBED NTA EPLY UPSETTG MATERIAL.THIS POST ALSO NTAS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM JOJO RABB.JOJO RABB IS A FILM ABOUT A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY GROWG UP THE DYG DAYS OF NAZI GERMANY.
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