64 years ago, those who were appointed as the legend of the third largest cinema took a tremendous risk of playing in this classical avant -garde

Be careful, spoilers! This article demonstrates the intrigue and end of the movie’s La Rumors. If you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to know about the content, don’t continue to read this article.

After the dark years of the Heise Code, representatives of homosexuals in Hollywood brought a good venture. There may never be any representation that appeals to everyone, but tries to provide fair reports on Queer Lives that will thrive beyond suffering and clichés in recent decades.

But it wasn’t always the case. And realize the way that traveled in terms of homosexuality. The.S, it is enough to review rumors, a well -intended attempt to show the “reality” of homosexual life at a time when such representations on the big screen were simply unacceptable. And the real risk -to -Hepburn, which is dedicated to later Third female legend American Cinema by American Cinema Institute.

What are the rumors?

Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley Maclaine) are close friends who run their own private boarding schools. Martha takes care of her daily school operations, and Karen is going to get involved with a young doctor, James Garner.

But things cannot remain as it is too long, and their lives are changing when the school’s odious nonsense, little Mary (Karen Balkin), spreading rumors that Karen and Martha are very close to the two people of the same sex … At least, Mary is a little daughter of the school’s blessing, so she practically manipulated her when she manipulates her.

On the surface, the film seems to be convinced that their own loss, Karen and Martha are fighting against the fate to save dignity. The film recognizes lipstick that the American community is deeply homophobic, but no other choice to look at its two protagonists in the mud, because of fear of censorship.

A brutal film for his protagonists, a reflection of time

Although it is a tragic representation, many factors must be taken into account during the production of rumors, so the 1960s, in particular the Hay Code and Free censorship. According to the US standards and the law of that time, such a story can only end with a complete tragedy. In short, trouble and trouble for Martha and Karen.

Martha ends after committing suicide (on the terribly painful scene you see above) that she was always in love with Karen, and the latter in a panic said she was probably just concerned. On the other hand, Karen refuses to get involved in Joe until he had the opportunity to refuse it, simply because he did not want to have anything to do with him.

But there is hope and progression in the depth of history. The film ends with Karen, alone and left Martha’s funeral with her head, despite the whispering of the people. It leaves a taste for dignity, even if the dialogue does not give it sincerely.

However, this conclusion was a type of melodramatic conclusion that had a trump “buried your gays” (“Burial Your Gays”), indicating that a happy life as a queen, alive and performed person was simply impossible to imagine. And at the time, it seemed that it was mainly a matter.

At the same time the career of the actors

If Hepburn and McLean are perfect and huge in their roles, they would almost condemn them as their characters. Long before this film, Audrey Hepburn has widely praised her interpretations with always unbelievable accuracy and its unparalleled elegance. However, Karen is only crying, paralyzed by the crime, and was forced to make moral messages of the film without fighting them.

On the other hand, Shirley McLein built the first part of her career in Hollywood, excited, dishonest and unexpected investigators who needed a moral lesson. Therefore, his play, Martha, is the most openly fragile and self -developed, who failed to manage his feelings and inflammation, as a logical sequence in his career. Still in terms of time, of course.

The fact that Hepburn and McLein play these roles are not easy to read, but have a fundamental message that we have to expect that these characters respond in this way and therefore it is like fatality. Society was ready to consider their actions as feasible and expected, and therefore it is unlikely that the issue was to come there.

Rumors today shows how developed Queer’s representation

It is not a question to say that director William Willer or one of the casting tried to deny the homosexual society. Moreover, it must be said that they could not make a more progressive film. In contrast, it seems that all people involved in the production of rumors have had good intentions as they intend to career to say such a story at the time.

The film, of course, ends with the tragedy, but it will also lead to compassion and may have brought an understanding of the time when it was quite difficult to get. Today it can be considered a cultural cornerstone of the era when it was considered an avant -garde.

Rumors are available until July 31 at the video prime.