Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew I had done nothing wrong. In fact, I had done nothing at all. Without consulting me, the Great Cosmos had made me gay. And with my pre-teenage intuition, I apparently realized what I know explicitly now: that no theory of accountability, no morality, could judge me for something that was beyond my control. I was not shit...
Joslin no doubt intended the film to be a strong gay liberation statement, and if the strength of the statement had rested on that element of surprise. I would have failed as a reviewer. But it is Joslin himself who sold the audience short on a gay lib statement by letting his movie become self-indulgent. Those endless photo albums, those lengthy shots of everyday existence, like driving in a car or sitting on the porch, those over-used cinemaverite sequences which Joslin admits he hates, are not meaty enough for the viewer, who feels he is being led toward...
Joslin could have preserved his statement, "Gay is the revolution--Oh yes!" despite the aforementioned gobbledy-gook, if only he and his lover had actually made love in the movie. But they never quite bring themselves to it. Instead they end up making love to the movie itself...
...whole movie. Joslin, who has been making films since he was 14, has inserted so many distractions, veering from the direct path so often in the movie, that he has succeeded in making a totally different and seemingly unintentional statement about homosexuality: for anyone Victorian enough to think of gay men as sexual deviants, he has shown the gay man having a productive, normal life. Joslin himself is a teacher at Hampshire College in Amherst...
...several other Joslin films made at different times in his life. One is a fight between two boys, one a fatal mountain climbing accident, one a crime-detective story, one a changing of the seasons story. These apparently random detours from the main line actually serve to highlight the gay man's normality and productivity...