Whitney Monaghan

Favorite films

  • Carol
  • Gummo
  • Pink Flamingos
  • Au Hasard Balthazar

All
  • Sing Sing

  • The Dive

  • Touching the Void

  • Grosse Pointe Blank

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Chemsex

2015

Watched

While this is an important film about the subaltern and queer world of chemsex in the UK, I'm a bit bothered by its politics. It is framed around a set of troubling binaries about gay life that assert there is a 'right' way of doing sex, love, life, and relationships. The film sets up divisions between good gays and bad gays, good relationships and bad relationships, good sex and bad sex. In each of these cases monogamy, longevity, intimacy and…

Saw

2004

Rewatched

I began the new year in a hungover haze. Saw seemed an appropriate choice for my first film of the year.

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