本片在时间刻度上正处于80年代艾滋大流行和90年代国际同志运动兴起的交界点女生宿舍2可以说史料价值相当高这群人的生活方式和生活态度他们的选择他们的期望不仅仅代表了个体更是代表了性少数群体所经历的时代特征这种不计后果的洒脱不惜以生命为代价也要纵情燃烧真的特别具有时代特色I came, I saw, I conquered. 正是如此
bell hooks, "ethnographic gaze", "an outsider looking in", "does not oppose the way hegemonic whiteness 'represents' blackness but rather assumes an imperial overseeing position that is in no way progressive or counterhegemonic." Judith Butler, "camera itself is empowered as phallic instrument", "the vehicle through which the transubstantiation occurs", "an instrument and effect of lesbian desire", "to enter into a logic of fetishization which installs the ambivalence of that 'performance" as related to our own." 但说实话自己观影时没觉得这部的gaze有多problematic/patronizing女生宿舍2可能因为我本身就是一个凝视这个群体的外人
1980年代纽约ballroom culture / realness的意义在于融入成为他们straight & white counter part同时也作为一种resistance而存在 / House as a family / social oppression / ballroom里面的Queen在这个房间里收获了自己想要的肯定和fame但最终还是要面对更大的世界女生宿舍2还是想要做一个“正常人”