Glenn Weldon
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5,867 appearances
59 recordings
10 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard 2d ago
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I think the conceit here, the premise is something you could just bounce a quarter off of.
I mean, the thing that will kill you takes the form of the thing you most desire.
So these fundamentalists in this movie are weaponizing queer desire to rid themselves of queer people.
Sure.
Show me the lie.
I mean, queer people grow up in communities that hate them, and we internalize that hate, and that internalization is the thing that's doing the work that these bigots want to do.
It is insidious, and that's exactly what this film captures, in a way that some people of faith might find unfair.
I don't.
Yeah.
It gets something else correct, too.
It gets this thing that was even more galling and I thought was even more accurate, which is over the course of this film, a queer kid dies.
And when that happens, those same bigots point to the queerness itself as the cause, completely absolving themselves and their hatred and their fear from the equation.
Show me the lie.
I mean, the metaphor there is airtight.
And it's about as good a working definition of evil as you're going to find anywhere.
I think you were on the show, Rhianna, when we talked about I Saw the TV Glow, right?
My defensiveness about this film kind of feels like the way I felt defensive about that film.
And I understand they're very good films.
But that is another queer film whose central metaphor is admittedly doing a lot of heavy lifting.
But I will hear no disparagement because I don't know.
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