White lotus bury your gays
Still, White Lotus, Season 3, Episode 8, “Amor Fati,” Lochlan Ratliff reaching for the surface.
“Western dramatic climax was produced by the agon of male will. Through action to identity. Action is the route of escape from nature, but all move circles back to origins, the womb-tomb of essence. . . . Western narrative is a mystery story, a process of detection. But since what is detected is unbearable, every revelation leads to another repression.” – Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, 7.
“But blessed are your eyes because they watch. . . “ – Jesus, Matthew 13:16
“I glance at you guys, and it feels meaningful.I can’t explain it, but even when we’re just sitting around the pool talking about whatever inane shit, it still feels very fucking deep.” – Laurie, White Lotus
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Superficial is not serious. For instance, a superficial wound may be painful but not life-threatening. It’s not that profound. What is superficial—or merely “sweeps over the surface of the waters”—is not really serious.
Culturally and religiously, the concept of depth is taken seriously. There is a constant stream of chatter about
There aren’t enough plots in the cemetery for all the Queer characters butchered before their time. The #BuryYourGays trope has claimed countless fictional lives and, without fail, the hashtag will be trending after each untimely passing to mark the occasion. The trope itself had its inception at a occasion when homophobic legislation backed Queer artists into a corner, leaving them to either kill off their representative characters or not include them at all. Now, at least in Hollywood, the trope serves no noble purpose other than to exploit Homosexual trauma for viewership and shock value. These stories have become so disrespected that they’re being dragged from our screens entirely.
“Bury Your Gays” refers to the trope in which Queer or Queer-coded characters are more likely to meet a gruesome, tragic end than their cishet counterparts. Thus they are treated as more expendable and become punished by their storylines. In the Victorian era, it gave Queer artists the independence to incorporate Queer stories without being persecuted for “endorsing homosexuality,” which was illegal at the hour. The unfair treatment of Queer characters was necessitated by the context of the time to even
In the fall of 2020, filmmaker Mike White wrote and directed The Light Lotus (TWL), a six-episode HBO miniseries focused on several VIP guests and few hapless employees at an exclusive (fictional) Hawaiian resort called The Alabaster Lotus. The guests arrive to escape reality; the employees facilitate the guests’ escape. Through interlinked tragicomedic storylines, each central personality is trapped by a particular problem or obstacle. But given their vastly unequal positionalities, strategies to resolve their problems diverge widely as do their outcomes.
Only one character achieves authentic freedom: Quinn Mossbacher (Fred Hechinger), the 16-year-old white, upper class, sexually ambiguous and possibly neuro-divergent (aka “queer”) son of Nicole (Connie Britton) and Mark (Steve Zahn). Quinn, whose gender-neutral name means “wise” or “counsel,” evolves from an obsessive technophile into someone dedicated to ocean life and a team of Hawaiian men paddlers training for a hokulea.
Examining Quinn’s transformation in contrast to the storylines of other entitled resort guests can attend as constructive curriculum for white progressives.
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6th episode review!
Come on, really? I was so elated to see what would happen between the two women and the brothers from the last episode, but really? Saxon vomited just thinking about it, and I can understand that.
The reviewers who were complaining about the brother-brother thing in the last episode might not be competent to digest what happened in this one. The reveal is getting intriguing story-wise, but I feel like all the characters are just waiting for the final episode to do something crazy because it's the rule-killing usually happens in the finale, so they're just waiting for it.
Also, who hired that security guard? For two episodes now, he's been scared about something that someone stole from him, and to get it back, he's behaving like a thief-even though it's his own thing he's trying to obtain back. Were the resort owners looking for a security guard to get care of Mook or the resort?
Overall, the tension is building up. I just hope the characters don't remain for the finale and actually execute something in the next episode.
Can Queer Movies Preserve Up?
With LGBTQ+ advocacy in movies on the rise, it’s high time to assess if these movies are moving us forward.
Queer media is on the up and up, but is it accurately representing gender non-conforming experiences? A trend in gay media that is still rampant today is the “bury your gays” trope, which depicts queer experiences as miserable and full of strife, even killing off queer characters. While many movies are pushing queer experiences forward, some are still sticking to the old trends.
My Policeman came out this week on Amazon Prime. This movie has had a ton of buzz surrounding it. Harry Styles plays the main traits, a policeman, in this tragic affection story between two men in Britain set in the 1950s.
My Policeman depicts the struggle of a closeted policeman and his art historian lover (David Dawson). This production shows the admire between the two men, but also the pressures of marriage during the time, as skillfully as reminding us that homosexuality was a crime. Harry Styles’ character struggles with his nervousness to lose his job and societal pressure to spot a wife (Emma Corin). Tom, the policeman, Patrick, his lover, and Marrion, his wife, are caught in