Paris Is Burning Comments

  • Barton 2022-10-05 08:44:14

    a brand new world for...

  • Blaze 2022-10-01 20:18:09

    It is indeed "one film everyone should see". The second half is a hippie style of brokenness and beauty, street graffiti in the sunset, New York is no longer New York, and the last silhouette of a fluffy blonde girl. About the basement of the old days, black people, women, and black people who wanted to be...

  • Joaquin 2022-09-24 00:54:25

    Great, great, great, the camera angles are interesting, everyone is talking to the interviewer outside the screen, this distance allows the viewer to focus more on taking in the way and environment of all the characters talking; the depiction of the house Warm and complex, the open beach location suggests that sometimes the house may be restrained; the ending is very moving, deconstructing the realness, and honoring all the ppl who work on this film; the child at the end is really a sad and...

  • Garett 2022-09-22 20:49:19

    The record of the bright side of gay life is also an example of fringe culture entering the mainstream. It is worth noting that while the LGBT community emphasizes equality and inclusiveness, Ball is imitating "normal people" (whites, straight people). The aspirations of young queens are nothing more than to be famous, to be rich, to find a man they love. So, is its identity still based on mainstream values? The dark side of drugs, theft, murder, etc., has been brought up in a single stroke;...

  • Beulah 2022-09-20 07:39:43

    Complementing the overhyped queer imagery is now a bit underwhelming The community’s internalization of patriarchy is getting worse every day and yet we need our own...

  • Dandre 2022-09-14 12:58:29

    At the end, the two teenagers are looking forward to the future and want to know how they are doing...

  • Paris 2022-09-11 02:14:02

    The true meaning of "integration" in cross-dressing, integration into the white group, high society, normal sexual orientation, the origin of Vogueing, shade, and reading, the emergence of the drag queen...

  • Eleonore 2022-09-09 15:16:32

    The more I understand cross-dressing and transgender, the more I like them, and my curiosity gradually fades away. What remains are the pure dreams, desires and struggles shared by human...

  • Ayden 2022-09-06 22:23:52

    CC Blu-ray 2K Restoration / 80s New York Underground Ball Gay Transgender...

  • Braden 2022-08-14 17:29:49

    In spectacle society, by creating spectacles to satisfy needs (at the same time gaining personal identity), is it an active survival strategy or a compromise to reality, depending on its motivation and how it treats the existing power structure? Great research case of urban social...

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Paris Is Burning quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.

Paris Is Burning

Director: Jennie Livingston

Language: English Release date: August 1991