mehregan ghadiri

i'm surprised its ratings are so low! i'd give it a solid 8! spoiler alert: i was a crying mess the whole time. so tragic yet so so realistic, and i'm saying realistic because they turned the spotlight on actual suffering, trauma and pain when it comes to homosexuality. it isn't just a movie about 2 men passionately in love, in the 50s might i add, it's about internal homophobia, coming to terms with homosexuality, anti-lgbtq laws, love and betrayal, and so much more: Tom who, in my opinion, never fully accepted himself as a member of the lgbtq community because even when he got all old, he still didn't welcome Patrick in his home... Patrick who was punished and put to jail for being gay. Marion, on the other hand, i don't even know where to begin. what Tom did to her was wrong on so many levels, she was betrayed and cheated on but what SHE did to Patrick was unforgivable as well... although i can see why she did what she did but she literally ruined their lives altogether. however, she was understanding even at the end. had it been anyone else, they probably would've done the same thing considering the hatred and oppression against gay men in that time. so i don't really know what to think of her. it hurt, because god knows how many people have had to go through what the 3 of them did, still do perhaps and it just breaks my heart knowing this was only a frame of real people's actual lives...