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QUEER

“Suffering is shouted twice as loudly, With “Queer,” an adaptation of
happiness is expressed too much, lo- William Burroughs' novel of the same
vers want to lose their breath, solitude name, Luca Guadagnino pays a visit
feels like a punishment, like the plan of to his own youth. To understand the
the gods. They are never reached. Hen- “how” and the “why”, we first have to
ce his genius, hence his sense of doom: go back to the 1950s and drink the
denied but felt between the four walls, strong potion that was the beatnik
between the absences, between the generation. Those who saw, in their
heavy silence. The unmentionable.” childhood, the horrors that humanity
engendered during the Second Wor-
(Paulo Gomes, “Why do homosexuals ld War find themselves in an America
run?” in Revista K, nº2, November of alienated consumerist optimism,
1990) eager to forget the recent past and
build an artificial concept of normali-
ty. As in a sitcom, the reference was

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