POWER GAMES

Ex-gay reform “therapy” is about power and control by fundamentalists who fear the “other” in gays and lesbians.  This brilliant film with Lucas Hedges, “Boy Erased,” explores this theme in painful detail.

Like “Call Me By Your Name” the music track alternates mood themes with contemporary tunes and a memorable solo by Troye Sivan who is an actor in the film.  Also similar to CMBYN, the movie ends with a father son conversation.  

Russell Crowe plays the fundamentalist preacher dad and Nicole Kidman appears as the mom.  It's not about religion.

It moved from the Uptown to  the Edina and it will find an audience because this movie explores a cause of our current polarization and hate vs love. https://www.troyesivan.com

Similarly, see Alfonso  Cuaron's "Children of Men" where fear of refugees dominates life in a grim aftermath of global warming.  This relates to a class I took on climate change in Africa where drought has driven refugees to industrial world countries like US and Europe where CO2 gases caused global warming.

On the same DVD watch the documentary "The Possibility of Hope," where experts say if we act now we can slow down the coming catastrophe.  We need a change in DC, don't we?