And, if that's all you want to see, The Drag King Book contains plenty of photos of them. But, as its authors make clear, for all the studied fun that comes with crossing gender genres and playing with boundaries, drag and its close companion, transgression, are serious affairs, raising overtly social and political questions about gender and identity. The Drag King Book is not a study, to use Halberstam's phrase, of the 'mechanics of change' and neither is it a prurient book. In the traditional Astaire and Rogers or Garland and Rooney musical, characters sing and dance to communicate emotions that they can't express in the ordinary world. The everyday of the musical depicts characters caught in drab, socially confined roles.
Euphoria takes over.
Last Dance takes this premise to extremes. The characters are so incapable of communication they're nearly mute. The film resonates more with Kafka than Gene Kelly, more Asimov than Astaire. Garbage pickup will be cancelled. Water will be cut off.