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Melyssa 2023-07-09 18:40:54
Finally watched this important film. It was a really captivating movie. It did a good job capturing what it was like. As a big fan of RuPaul's drag race it is just so wonderful that we got to see where it all came from. Omg so many...
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Sigrid 2023-07-09 07:46:45
This film reminds me of a Chinese documentary "Tang Tang". The difference is that this one is bright and that one is very sad. What I see in this piece is the bloom of these people, and what I see in that piece is Tang Tang's sadness. In fact, I quite like this subject matter, but there are so many interviews in this film that I couldn't help falling asleep in the middle. ....
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Antonette 2023-07-06 20:07:28
Part 95. A very important work in the history of queer film, we used it in class to discuss how documentaries should be made and watched. Sometimes when documentaries show a different world, they are alienating. But it is also telling you, this is what it...
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Dominique 2023-06-14 13:27:41
This is a very "sincere" documentary, but because it is so far away from our lives, everything in it has a "film quality" attached, and everyone in it is so alive, so real, look After finishing, I feel that I can also "respect" those people I don't "respect" more, and I can accept them more, whether it is dress, makeup, voice (I really can't accept this kind of thing before) but , people are people, beauty is beauty, and at the same time I envy them for being able to "burn" their sincerity and...
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Ryleigh 2023-06-14 11:17:44
This is what gay life is...
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Douglas 2023-06-07 08:14:22
Three inherent disadvantages: black, poor, and basic. It records the ecology of the black gay district in Harlem that has passed away in the late 1980s. It looks like another kind of gang society. Teenagers away from home are included in several large families, and there are almost no old comrades. The rap battle between drag queens is called Reading; Voguing is fighting...
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Mae 2023-05-24 02:11:10
It's too long, just read the...
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Josefa 2023-05-10 05:52:04
To a certain extent, they are the most free people, not living as children or parents, but living in the world with their true self, becoming a family with those they love and those who love themselves. In this ugly world, at least be able to be...
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Megane 2023-04-25 19:56:33
New York in the late '80s was so aspirational, it was a queer version of The Warriors, but the edges were so gorgeous, heaven and hell...
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Jose 2023-04-25 18:11:13
In the 1980s and 1990s, ballroom culture became a subculture represented by lgbt+ groups and entered the mainstream. A series of "cultural products" such as drag queen and voguing had a huge impact on fashion industry, classes, and race relations, subverting the traditional gender binary recognition. Knowing that the fringe culture of the underground dance floor has set off an unprecedented cultural revolution. Of course, groups that are still in the stage of niche development inevitably...
Paris Is Burning Comments
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Dorian Corey: I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think, you've made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you've left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.
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Pepper LaBeija: This is white America. Any other nationality that is not of the white set, knows this and accepts this till the day they die. That is everybody's dream and ambition as a minority - to live and look as well as a white person. It is pictured as being in America. Every media you have; from TV to magazines, to movies, to films... I mean, the biggest thing that minority watches is what? "Dynasty" and "The Colbys". Umm, "All My Children" - the soap operas. Everybody has a million-dollar bracket. When they showing you a commercial from Honey Grahams to Crest, or Lestoil or Pine-sol - everybody's in their own home. The little kids for Fisher Price toys; they're not in no concrete playground. They're riding around the lawn. The pool is in the back. This is white America. And when it comes to the minorities; especially black - we as a people, for the past 400 years - is the greatest example of behavior modification in the history of civilization. We have had everything taken away from us, and yet we have all learned how to survive. That is why, in the ballroom circuit, it is so obvious that if you have captured the great white way of living, or looking, or dressing, or speaking - you is a marvel.
