“That the impact of hiding who you are, and internalized homophobia, does have consequences, so we can’t deny that simultaneously. “I was aware of the stigma around negative representations and that being one of the issues, but I was also, as you know, thinking about how repression can create violence, and that’s true also,” Hittman said. To that end, I wondered about the movie’s ending-if it was evidence of a blind spot to decades of same-sex lust curdling into violence on screen.
