PrimeWire

Velvet Goldmine did it better, more beautifully, in a less corny way and with less misogyny and butthurt— all while Velvet Goldmine was technically a fictional story while this one was biographical. This movie was just so… corny and hokey and sulking. And I say this as a big lover of Elton and of glam rock on the whole. Forced myself through this film though I could hardly endure all the extremely gratuitous female nudity and objectification, it was so unnecessary and a really skewed depiction of reality. Even with the gay male relationships there wasn’t a single male in this movie anywhere near as objectified and fetishized as countless females were. And ofc they always demonize the mother and make her look like the sterotype of a horrible witch - even though mothers invest so much more into parenting than fathers and have it so much harder. It’s clear that this wasn’t a depiction of the way his mother actually was; rather, it was yet another one of countless stereotypical depictions of the “horrible witch mother.” Mothers are always demonized. It’s just so sulking.