Yeah... I would not have nearly the same reaction to the way Satan was depicted, if I thought that the movie was sheerly meant as entertainment. In an "objective" sense, I thought the portrayal was hauntingly beautiful.
But that's the thing -- the intended audience of the movie would respond with revulsion to a hauntingly beautiful androgynous figure. It would scream at them "unnatural!" The effects will mostly be subconscious, beyond awareness -- and occur at a time when the nation is embroiled in an extremely shrill and polemicized debate over gay rights.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2004-03-13 03:50 pm (UTC)But that's the thing -- the intended audience of the movie would respond with revulsion to a hauntingly beautiful androgynous figure. It would scream at them "unnatural!" The effects will mostly be subconscious, beyond awareness -- and occur at a time when the nation is embroiled in an extremely shrill and polemicized debate over gay rights.