Far From Heaven - Rainbow Boy

[erastes]

Watched Far from Heaven last night - and I really enjoyed it, although I thought the ending was weak (although on retrospect I suppose it was the only ending that could have been, I was just pissed off at her smiling acceptance, but I suppose it was her "getting strong" (although she must have been pretty strong all the way through.)

1950's Connecticut. Dennis Quaid (I love him and he's so underrated) have a "seemingly" perfect marriage, but he's a repressed homosexual. He keeps saying he's working late and one evening she takes him a supper and finds him kissing a boy in his office. Then the wife - who's all upset and lonely, gets chatting to the black gardener. Nothing happens other than friendship but it destroys his life. it was ironic that what SHE didn't do had more affect than what he was actually doing.

The performances were amazing. Personally I would have liked it to be perhaps a bit longer, but it worked well. The fact that the husband has no vocabularly to deal with what is happening to him. He calls it a "problem".

But I loved it, omg it was brilliant. The costumes were divine. The '50's (actually the 30's to the 50's) is my favourite decade and the fashions were gorgeous. The costumer in this deserved an Oscar, although I doubt if he/she got one.

It was very powerful. There was no explicit anything, but that made it more erotic, really. I will have to buy the DVD and add to slashy shelf (which is growing nicely, thank you)

But OMG I really really REALLY wish I hadn't watched it. It is all a bit too close to "Junction X" I'd like to say for the record that I hadn't heard of this film and plot until AFTER I thought of Junction X, and I plan JX to be very English and of course the ending is completely different.

Thanks to gehayi for this. Not all Superheroes are .... straight?

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In fact that WHOLE SITE is BRILLIANT. Thank you so much gehayi!!!!

Comments

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it's funny, that I was thinking of Head as i was watching the film.

And I did wonder why she was constantly wearing the big skirts when most younger and fashionable women were already going to thinner frocks, the two wouldn't have mixed, I'm sure, they were very slavish to styles back then.

But I loved them. Loved that the colours were all muted Autumn colours (even the gardeners jacket) to match the beautiful CT autumn colours.

And yes, I was so worried about Dennis and the Cabana Boy!