This film focusing heavily on an underground lifestyle of drug use and debauchery when also trying to provide representation of an under-represented and easily misunderstood group enforces negative stereotypes through establishing a distancing effect in the majority of the audience.
The protagonist of the film being subject to unimaginable trauma and serving as a cipher in an Oedipus story exacerbates this distance and creates troubling parallels between trauma and gender non-conformity. This functions as a poor choice when considering any…
