We need to talk about internalized hatred "I am tired of feeling disgusted with myself." - from The Miseducation of Cameron Post This is going to be a very different article. This is because I am not going to talk about any film in specific. I have something important to say that needs to be said, because I feel that, if I don’t say it, I’m going to implode. I have a confession to make - I suffer from a terrible condition, a condition that we all suffer from. That condition is called internalized homophobia. I am a homophobe. And we are all homophobes. What I want to talk about here is about my experience. I want to talk about the internal fight that I have been fighting for as long as I understood my sexual orientation. And I want people to understand what I and many other queer people go through every day in this society that we live in. I started writing in here because I felt the need to express my thoughts through what I think about films. Now I decided to writ...
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Films watched this year
- 1917 (2019) directed by Sam Mendes
- 9 to 5 (1980) directed by Colin Higgins
- A Place in the Sun (1951) directed by George Stevens
- Adults in the Room (2019) directed by COsta~Gavras
- Bacurau (2019) directed by Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Bait (2019) directed by Mark Jenkin
- Bombshell (2019) directed by Jay Roach
- By the Grace of God (2019) directed by François Ozon
- Female Trouble (1974) directed by John Waters
- Flames of Passion (1989) directed by Richard Kwietniowski
- For Sama (2019) directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
- Ford v Ferrari (2019) directed by James Mangold
- From Here to Eternity (1953) directed by Fred Zinnemann
- GUO4 (2019) directed by Peter Strickland
- I Confess (1953) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Invisible Life (2019) directed by Karim Aïnouz
- Jojo Rabbit (2019) directed by Taika Waititi
- Jubilee (1978) directed by Derek Jarman
- Little Women (1933) directed by George Cukor
- Little Women (1949) directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong
- Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018) directed by Bi Gan
- Looking for Langston (1989) directed by Isaac Julien
- Monos (2019) directed by Alejandro Landes
- Mosquito (2020) directed by João Nuno Pinto
- Network (1976) directed by Sidney Lumet
- O Fantasma (2000) directed by João Pedro Rodrigues
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) directed by Céline Sciamma
- Red River (1948) directed by Howard Hawks
- Richard Jewell (2019) directed by Clint Eastwood
- Shadow (2018) Zhang Yimou
- The Farewell (2019) directed by Lulu Wang
- The Hunger (1983) directed by Tony Scott
- The Leopard (1963) directed by Luchino Visconti
- The Lighthouse (2019) directed by Robert Eggers
- The Nightingale (2018) directed by Jennifer Kent
- The Souvenir (2019) directed by Joanna Hogg
- The Wild Goose Lake (2019) directed by Diao Yi'nan
- Thelma & Louise (1991) directed by Ridley Scott
- Un Chant D'Amour (1950) directed by Jean Genet
- Uncut Gems (2019) directed by Benny and Josh Safdie