A Bromance of Epic Proportions

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2016)

I do not believe that Seth Rogan intentionally meant to project the repeatedly veiled themes used throughout the film. I have no objections with the LGBT lifestyle, but I do take issue with is when writers like Seth Rogan write films specifically geared toward impressionable teenagers and uses "comedy" (if you want to call it that) to advocate date rape and "bromances".
The story focuses on the relationship of two men - a latent homosexual (Seth) and a cuckold (Evan). I would bring up McLovin, but I truly believe his character was one of the few who were likable. Without McLovin, this story would have been an extremely dark comedy, like the movies Happiness (1998) and Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995).
SETH:
Latent homosexual, Jonah Hill's character, (Seth) who is positively the most flamboyant, insecure, co-dependent, woman-hating, bro-loving obese manchild spends most of the film projecting himself as some kind of clever badass. He advocates date rape, obsesses about cocks, treats his friendship like a marriage, and several other horrible qualities that absolutely no man on earth should ever willfully possess.
Jonah Hill's obnoxious role in this film is the epitome of all that is disgusting and warped. I can't say with certainty if Seth Rogan wrote this character based on his own self or if the character of Seth is a collection of experiences. Seth Rogan wrote a character that shares his own name. Call it a coincidence or call it vanity.
The latent homosexual themes surrounding Seth are grotesquely obvious throughout the entire film. While some of these moments are absolutely hilarious, there is no denying the sad and lonely world that the character of Seth lives in.

He had an obsession with penises, drawing them and looking at them, collecting them, hiding them in a lunchbox, and often drew them in an exhibitionist fashion (in the classroom). He continues the classroom exhibitionist behavior when he pretends to hump, lick, and ejaculate on Jules during home economics.

He degrades virtually every woman in the entire film - Evan's mother, his home- economics teacher, Jules during home-ec, Evan's crush, Becca, the drunk girl who danced with him at the party, the girl who had breast reduction while he and Evan waited for McLovin outside the liquor store, and the list goes on.

He obsesses over McLovin and Evan sharing a dorm at Dartmouth college. This is the most telling of all indicators. There is no logical reason as to why he should have cared at all that his two friends were sharing a dorm. It simply makes no sense. Sure - he can be jealous that they're going to a better school than he can go to, but why even make a sub-plot over the dorm?

Once Evan finally establishes a normal relationship with Becca, Seth "matures" and no longer projects animosity towards women or his friends - a subtle admission of defeat.

"We were supposed to go to college together. We talked about it while we were kids." This entire scene is probably the most obvious moment in the film that Seth isn't just a co-dependent friend - he comes off as being territorial, entitled, and full on heartbroken. He's holding laundry detergent bottles full of beer, crying about girls, crying about how Evan is going to "leave him". Interestingly enough, during this argument between Seth and Evan, both officers Slater and Michaels engage in a flashlight battle and things quickly escalate. Officer Slater runs Seth over with his car, and then forces Seth and Evan to hold hands as he taunts them with his gun. While this is going on, Officer Michaels gives McLovin a cigarette and tells him to "suck it long and hard". Surely this is just for comedic value and nothing more than coincidence at best - right?

EVAN:
An extremely effeminate, masochistic, stuttering cuckold who spends a majority of the film pacifying his friend Seth while he attempts to establish a normal relationship with Becca. Evan and Becca seem to be the most moral of all characters in the film, and they truly seem to long for one another despite Seth's attempts to degrade, sabotage, and insult both Evan and Becca's evolving relationship.
The saddest part of Evan's motivation throughout the story is that he allows Seth to instigate and antagonize a variety of unfortunate events that directly impact Evan's ability to establish a relationship with Becca. It is more than obvious that Evan does not want to get Becca drunk in order to have sex with her, and he mentions (several times) that he does not want to degrade Becca's innocence - despite Seth's repeated attempts to influence Evan.
Evan is such a pacifist regarding Seth's insecurities that he actually hides the fact that he is sharing a dorm with McLovin. This truly reveals Evan and Seth's awkward "friendship". Again - I see no reason why this "room mate" issue was written into the story. Seth could have simply been jealous that he couldn't get into Dartmouth, but instead Rogan goes a step further by adding a sub-plot involving Evan and McLovin sharing a room. Why does this bother Seth? How did Evan know that it would bother Seth? Is there more to the story that Rogan intentionally left out while at the same time intentionally including sub-plots that focus heavily on latent homosexual behavior?
OTHER OBSERVATIONS:
Bill Hader's character, Officer Slater, tells a story at the bar about his "whore wife" who had a gang bang on their wedding night. He also reveals that he was cuckolded and could hear his wife having sex with multiple men. Immediately after Officer Slater tells the gang bang story, his partner, Officer Michaels says that he was one of the men who had sex with Officer Slater's wife. This is an interesting parallel shared between the characters that is worth noting.