[maryz]

With its laborious build-up to its orgasmic spurtings of blood and other bodily fluids, the film is constructed like nothing so much as a porn movie

Is Rich gay? I've seen a similar attitude before; in an article in the Boston Globe during the height of the priest scandal, a gay "Catholic" talking about (among other things) the homoerotic aspects of a crucifix. It floored me at the time (and gave me the creeps), but things in this article reminded me of it.

[walden]

Andrew Sullivan (gay) used the terms "pornographic" and "sado-masochism" in describing the film. I forget the names, but I've seen the same stuff from one or two other gay writers. The only straight writer I've seen the same thing from is Christopher Hitchens, a rabid leftist on most issues.

I agree-- I find it very, very creepy. Just proves that what you get out of the movie depends very much on what you take into it.

[Ann Archy]

You asked if Rich is gay....I asked that myself....he sure ACTS gay. I think he's married, but she could be a beard. He was the Broadway critic for many years....maybe he saw one too many musicals!