I’m slightly in two minds about the short film Out Of The Closet, as I like it a lot but I’m not sure about how self aware it is.
The film is about a couple facing the breakdown of their relationship, when the one of them who is deep in the closet is unimpressed that his boyfriend has turned up out of the blue, just before his female fiancee is due to turn up.
On the surface the short seems to be strongly on the side of the guy being dumped, but at the same time it shows an awful lot of situations from the couples’ past where the openly gay guy should probably have taken the hint. While I’m not coming out in massive support of closet cases here, it does always seem that in films and TV series about people in the closet, the blame is always placed totally on them, even if the other person knew (or at least should have) what they were getting into and were setting themselves up for a fall.
Out Of The Closet may be aware of that, but it’s difficult to say whether things such as one of the men repeatedly refusing public displays of affection is showing that he’s an asshole, that his partner is deluding himself that things will change, or a bit of both. But hey, perhaps I’m just overthinking it and not enjoying the hot guys, sexiness and drama.
Amara Cash directs the film, which was made for James Franco’s Master Class ‘Sex Scenes’ as part of Playhouse West Studio 4. Damien Diaz and Daniele La Leggia star.
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