Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by AudioHead (i) on May 17, 2001 at 13:48:03

In Reply to: Re: "American Beauty": Initial Impression and Final Verdict. posted by caa on May 17, 2001 at 12:06:32:

falling for a stock character cliche, i.e., staunch military man with
repressed homosexual feelings. In actuality,when this type is finally forced to
confront these feelings, he most often finds true homosexual
feelings absent, instead he finds REPRESSED FEAR that he might be
homosexual, which is causing his
internal conflict. This FEAR puts a restriction on such a person's
display of same-gender affection because he always interprets this
as at best, weakness, at worst, outright homosexuality. I think the
Colonel suffered from this type of confusion. - AH