Dog Day Afternoon
Thank God I did not know anything about this movie because the experience I just had was transcendent.
The opening was so funny I was asking myself if this had been a comedy all along, until I realized that the absurdism was just a reality of the overall situation. It’s funny, yes, but it’s also tense and thrilling and tragic all over, to the point where I sobbed my eyes out during that one phone call towards the end.
What a heartbreaking little moment that oddly encapsulates the personal cost of queerness, the lengths to which society can push you by means of rejection. 471
When a society doesn’t afford you dignity, you are forced to demand it.
Also, the actual bank robber <PERSON> is playing was as hot, if not hotter, than <PERSON> himself. No wonder the tellers were like “whatever you say, handsome”. Like, same. 86