![]() Though this time, the film's grassroots popularity came from queer youth who seemingly saw themselves reflected in the film. ![]() Without aping any narratives, the general feeling is just as present in You Can Live Forever - a style choice that, while effective for this story, has already become a suffocating emotional hallmark.īut however overly relied upon, the hurt Watts and Slutsky inflicted on their characters was cathartic enough to gain a viral following after a 2022 debut at Tribeca Film Festival - and a subsequent Skinamarink -style piracy campaign. And because it involved suicide, male friendship and tears, so many people assumed Dear Evan Hansen must be about a boy bullied for his queerness they nearly rioted after discovering the actual (and, admittedly, bonkers) plot. Heartache, pain and trauma are tropes so inherently associated with queer kids in cinema that a score of articles interpreted the equally tragic Oscar nominee Close as either adjacent to, or in the LGBTQ canon - despite it having no objectively gay characters. Mentally combining a film about a '90s-era religious community with a narrative about gay youth should give you a blueprint for what's to come.
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