so let's talk about the creators the writers let's talk what were you thinking do you think you can keep getting away with this do you well you can i mean let's just say that hypothetically theoretically you released a movie during gay pride month totally coincidentally and let's just say that hypothetically this movie bore a coincidental aesthetic resemblance to another gay movie with similarly curly haired italians a movie directed by luca guadagnino lucca luke and then let's just say that literally everyone on earth who watches the movie has the same question was this movie gay so what does director enrico casarosa have to say for himself we really willfully went for a prepubescent story this is all about platonic friendships well i'm convinced and he's right hollywood has never made a piece of media where prepubescent kids have crushes on each other it's just not done it's also specifically a little bit of pre-romance that was something that i was interested in as well because there's just that moment that maybe we're not thinking about boyfriends or girlfriends yet which is really more about friendships okay okay okay okay maybe possibly he's actually sincere it's possible i mean the cultural norms between europe and america might be super different but this is an american movie made for a mostly american audience although casarosa's vision is his own and i can't tell him not to have it let's think about a purely theoretical world in which luca was gay and let's call that world earth if cassarosa did want to portray a queer story at the center of a major disney movie would they have led him probably not considering that disney has basically tried everything to make their gay characters editable out of any story they appear in disney wants to make money and they don't want to lose socially conservative audiences and non-western markets so they push their gaze to the side but let's say cassarosa planned a gay vision and got rejected why not make a gay spite movie why not make the gayest movie possible literally the gayest movie possible with uneditable and embedded queerness well i feel like he succeeded if that was the intention or maybe disney is in on it maybe they're testing the waters for queer animated films and they plotted to make the most obviously queer film ever to see how audiences would react because let's be real it's obvious what's going on in this movie there's no way thousands of writers producers creatives and executives saw this i didn't think for a moment there's no way casarosa didn't at least think about it at this point we all know it's gay disney and we liked it it was a good movie we're ready for more i promise i know why they aren't going to make queer kids films anytime soon they want money and gays are only profitable if you're in the iced coffee industrial complex but while we're in this weird ambiguous space let's try to critically celebrate what we can whatever luca is it took pieces imbued with queer meaning to produce and we can't just pretend it's not there it's there so are they gay yes bye
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