and in the end it's love

[schmerica]

I don't know if you all know this already or what, but Hard Core Logo is really fucked up.

Hee.

This movie always makes me want fic, and then I remember that I actually find the vast majority of HCL fiction to be completely unsatisfying, even from writers I really like.

This movie also raises an interesting philosophical question, of course, with unreliable narrators and canon (namely, how should it be taken?), given the context of the central homoerotic moment in the film and how it's presented, and then how it's generally completely unquestioned by fandom. (Wow, that sentence sounds much more pretentious when I'm trying to present it in a spoilerfree way.) ETA: There may be spoilers in the comments, of course.

Comments

[zulu]

There are so many different levels of viewpoints...I mean, there's what really happened, and then there's what the band members *say* happened, and then what they *mean* when they say that's what happened, and then there's what Bruce shows happened, and after that whole goat-chainsawing thing, his narrative reliability is less than any of theirs, and he's the fucking documentarian.

I was about to say I'd never feel up to writing HCL fic, then I remembered that, oops, I already have. However, I'll refine that by saying that I will never feel up to writing something that could be taken as "truth" about what happened or how the guys really feel. Because the truth is buried and besides, I don't think *any* of them *want* to know or acknowledge whatever that truth might be...so.

Gaaahhh, now I want to watch it again.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*nod* it's really just incredibly complex, which I suppose is part of the point.