If my statement now is OT just let me know and I will remove it to my own blog. But as to the question, "Is BBM an Anti gay Polemic. ??
I have to ask the question, is then the movie an anti-marriage polemic. Or is it a anti-hetero marriage polemic.
Because as I see the picture, it portrays all forms of human connection . Gay connection, hetero connections and marriage, as a polemic. It therefor shows that all are doomed to fail. Through either heartbreak, or death, or apathy. Leaving all
who partake of those behaviors, subject to every form of human pain..Including child abandonment, and a slow and
painful death alone.
This movie was not a documentary. It meant not to show that you have this happen, if you do this or that. It
was simply I believe a small window into these peoples life, showing the things that caused them to "end up here."
The women except for actual death. Sufffered just as surely and just as painfully as the men. They had one thing
also to battle that the men didnt. They had no ability to stop or change the things that were happening. Either by not even
being aware of the things that were happening. or if they did know..They too were uneducated and ill prepared to
know what to do about it. Alma had tried to ignore it, im sure in hopes it would run its course, and her husband would
finally return to her...That not happening she then gave it up. She turned to some new form of a life. But I dont think
that makes BBM a movie that is an anti-marriage polemic. It is just the fact that bad things can happen to good people.
That ignorance is its own reward. On all its various guises...Homophobia, or love, how to deal with an unhappy marriage..
They all are in a gordian knot of pain and unfamiliar territory..With no real equipment to deal.