A Classic For The Futrue

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2006)

The reason I call this movie a classic for the future is that it will never fully be appreciated until years into the future. This happens to many movies such as Casablanca, or The Wizard of Oz. In their initial release these movies and others were never very big money makers nor appreciated for what they were until years gone by, and now they are considered classics. The same thing will happen with Alexander.
It's very difficult to comment on this movie without getting too involved so let's just take Alexander's love life and comment on that. Alexander and his lover were gay. There is no doubt about that. Even though he was required to give his heritage a son, that doesn't make him straight or bisexual. Remember when the two were on the balcony, and Alexander said to the young man that it was he that only trusted and that it was he the only one that he loved, and it was vise-versa with Alexanders lover. The proof in the pudding is the tent scene where Alexander gets into bed. The look on his face and the shadow appearing to him was all that needed to be said, plus when Alexander's lover died. That was a powerful scene of one loosing his only love in the world to death! In many ways this was the same as David and Jonathan and their gay love relationship in the Old Testament recorded in Samuel I and II. Jonathan was willing to do anything for David and the both loved one another. When Jonathan dies in battle, David sings his greatest lament to this dead lover by saying that "Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing that of woman!" Then later, just as Alexander was King, David became King David of the House of Israel! Many gay men have been forced by family and society to produce an heir, but their hearts are always with their male lover. This applies to David, Jonathan, Alexander and Alexander's male lover. This is nothing new; it still goes on today! In the future, Alexander, the Director's Cut, will be appreciated for what it truly is and always be: A classic!