Product: Gods and Monsters (1998)
Rating: 5.0
a viewer from France :Facing one's own monsters
I watched this fabulous movie last night with my friends (who had alreday seen it) and loved it. There's so much food for thought in it : the character played by Fraser is all the more interesting as it shows how we all have to face our own monsters some day, particularly the fear of the unknown. In this particular case Boon is faced with the fear that some straight men might have, i.e., that a gay man may make them come face to face with their own emotions, their "feminine side", not trying to turn them gay but just to help them explore an aspect of their personality that they are afraid to look at.A very sensitive movie with great lines ("He's never met a princess before, mostly queens"), and scenes that bring tears to the eyes (especially when Whale shows Boon his drawings, which turn out to be like "the scribblings of a child".) A movie that stays with you for a long time after you have watched it.