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The gay surfing movie just totally blew my mind.
So yesterday I hung out with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
renenet, and we watched the first Varg Veum movie (<3 <3 <3) followed by Scooby Road, which I had never seen before, and topped off with a gay surfing movie called Shelter, which I had never heard of before (although I see it's got four Yuletide stories from last year.)
So, okay: it's a gay surfer movie about two guys who surf together falling in love. But much more than that, it's a movie about how terrifying it is to fall in love with a guy - a guy who's older, out, financially independent from his family and able to do what he wants, who casually mentions he was going to go to Barcelona but wasn't feeling like it - when you're a barely blue-collar kid scrambling to keep your family together, working two jobs and sharing a room with your nephew. Halfway through the movie I turned to R and exclaimed "It's an age difference thing AND a class thing! My buttons! Pushed!" and she pointed out to me that it was also a KID thing and if only someone were telepathic it would be perfect for me.
SO THEN you get to the end of the movie, the confrontation between the working class family members, Jeanie and Zach. Jeanie is taking off to Portland with her boyfriend, who doesn't want to be saddled with her son; Zach finally gets the courage to tell Jeanie he'll keep her son if she wants him to--but they'll be living with his boyfriend, who has also offered him a chance at a better life somewhere else, but has the resources not to bat an eye over adding a kindergartener to the deal.
And right about then I started thinking to myself, Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
It wasn't until this morning, after I looked up the "Being Poor" post, that I looked at the title of the movie again and realized how little sense it makes for a gay surfing movie and how incredibly much sense it makes for a movie about class and difficult relationships that was made two years after the "Being Poor" post. Shelter.
And now I'm going back to bed because it's barely light out and I have many fic bunnies to contemplate.
This entry is crossposted at http://dsudis.livejournal.com/528594.html.
renenet, and we watched the first Varg Veum movie (<3 <3 <3) followed by Scooby Road, which I had never seen before, and topped off with a gay surfing movie called Shelter, which I had never heard of before (although I see it's got four Yuletide stories from last year.)So, okay: it's a gay surfer movie about two guys who surf together falling in love. But much more than that, it's a movie about how terrifying it is to fall in love with a guy - a guy who's older, out, financially independent from his family and able to do what he wants, who casually mentions he was going to go to Barcelona but wasn't feeling like it - when you're a barely blue-collar kid scrambling to keep your family together, working two jobs and sharing a room with your nephew. Halfway through the movie I turned to R and exclaimed "It's an age difference thing AND a class thing! My buttons! Pushed!" and she pointed out to me that it was also a KID thing and if only someone were telepathic it would be perfect for me.
SO THEN you get to the end of the movie, the confrontation between the working class family members, Jeanie and Zach. Jeanie is taking off to Portland with her boyfriend, who doesn't want to be saddled with her son; Zach finally gets the courage to tell Jeanie he'll keep her son if she wants him to--but they'll be living with his boyfriend, who has also offered him a chance at a better life somewhere else, but has the resources not to bat an eye over adding a kindergartener to the deal.
And right about then I started thinking to myself, Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
It wasn't until this morning, after I looked up the "Being Poor" post, that I looked at the title of the movie again and realized how little sense it makes for a gay surfing movie and how incredibly much sense it makes for a movie about class and difficult relationships that was made two years after the "Being Poor" post. Shelter.
And now I'm going back to bed because it's barely light out and I have many fic bunnies to contemplate.
This entry is crossposted at http://dsudis.livejournal.com/528594.html.
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