"L.A Confidential" (U.S. Movie)
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:04 am
Originally posted on my blog: Tuesday 13 December 2011 - Filed under LGBT Media + Movie
Summary
Academy Award Winning film about the corruption in the L.A. police force in the ’50′s.
My Thoughts (with potential spoilers!)
Why I finally got around checking out this movie started as a non-gay documentary trail that is just too hard and obscure that’s not worth explaining. And frankly, after watching it, I felt very much like it was a testosterone fest, and I kept thinking “Kim Basinger (an actress I very much admire) won an Oscar for THAT role?!” I did think it was very well executed and I am an admirer of the three male actors, but story-wise it doesn’t offer anything worthwhile for a lesbian feminist.
I didn’t think I had any LGBT comments on it but a few days of machismo detox cleared my vision a bit.
Despite the hard core and brutal male perspective of the series, it does show a sympathetic moment in the form of a male actor who is roped into setting up a homosexual sting of a politician. But hardly enough to watch the movie JUST for that.
Summary
Academy Award Winning film about the corruption in the L.A. police force in the ’50′s.
My Thoughts (with potential spoilers!)
Why I finally got around checking out this movie started as a non-gay documentary trail that is just too hard and obscure that’s not worth explaining. And frankly, after watching it, I felt very much like it was a testosterone fest, and I kept thinking “Kim Basinger (an actress I very much admire) won an Oscar for THAT role?!” I did think it was very well executed and I am an admirer of the three male actors, but story-wise it doesn’t offer anything worthwhile for a lesbian feminist.
I didn’t think I had any LGBT comments on it but a few days of machismo detox cleared my vision a bit.
Despite the hard core and brutal male perspective of the series, it does show a sympathetic moment in the form of a male actor who is roped into setting up a homosexual sting of a politician. But hardly enough to watch the movie JUST for that.