Amine Faali

At the beginning of the movie, we meet our characters living their daily life. This may suggest that they are not different, they are Humans. They are in the same band, but they are different, homosexuals whose way of accepting their condition are contrasting, Michael is not happy about it, Emory is making it too obvious, Harold seems to enjoy life and make the best of it (as a homosexual). Above all else, they are in the same group. Here, the other (Alan) becomes a distraction, just like the rain that ends their party. When Alan, who represents the straight figure, comes, he turns everything upside down. In the last minutes of the movie, Harold is given the voice of wisdom: “You’re homosexual and you don’t want to be. But there is nothing you can do to change it … you will be always a homosexual as well, until the day you die.” Michael makes us believe that he has changed when he says: “if we could just not hate ourselves so much. If we could just learn not to hate ourselves so much.” But then we are reminded by Donald that he is just the same, he will never change. One has to ask oneself, what’s the point from going back to the 60s? Is it just to say that this movie is a remake of a 60s classic? Or is it to inform the viewer that if we today still have the same worldview, then we are still living in the 60s?