Word: joslinized
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Much of the film is straight documentary in style, but Joslin brazenly exhibits an unrefined diversity with his inclusion of surrealistic pink-filtered sequences, abstract sequences and single-frame sequences...
...Joslin shows how he lives and how he came to admit his homosexuality alongside the reactions this provokes in his family. His mother attempts to be philosophical, his brothers don't really care much, and his father is extremely embarrassed at his son's "effeminacy...
...said that I have not ruined the 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...
Black Star contains 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...
...viewer does not already sympathize with Joslin and his lover, he will after being handed some blatant one-liners by Joslin's parents. Father, for example, bemoaning his son's estate, says, "When you get mixed up with the arty people...ech...that's it." He himself admires the "tough-guy" image. Mother says she is disappointed he will not have a typical family life, so she doesn't give him the land in the country should would otherwise have given...