Is This a Homosexual Movie?

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The film is about two men who live in the same apartment in vacation together. Some theaters refused to show it because because of the murder, because it is gay. The actors themselves were gay, as was the greenwrite and wriht you. And obviously agree with his theory of the superman. But i'd rather hear any more contempt for humanity, for the standards of a world that i believe is civilized.

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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