Sequential Art, Seventh Art & Other Arts: August 2018

Monday, August 20, 2018

Battle of the Sexists!!!

I tell you... 
That movie would be far more aptly titled as such
...indeed! 

And here is why:








SPOILERS ALERT: 

This silly film glorifies the rise of LGBTQ rights 
(it even throws in an openly gay actor 
playing the part of an historically-unlikely character 
prophetizing the time when, we quote, his kind 
will be ''free to love who we love'' - right!) 
when, in fact, it is all about athletics and, 
as one athlete ages, he cannot compete any more 
not even with someone he would have owned, 
in his prime...! 

How could a film relating a so-called historical moment 
give way to so much reverse-sexism...
and even sexism within the alleged heroism; 
I mean, how else do you call the treatment 
that the ''girlfriend'' gets throughout this thing, 
really, from the so-called, purported-to-be 
great heroine for feminism and LGBT rights?!? 

AND IF THIS WAS TRULY ABOUT LGBTQ... 
Why end it this way: 
we learn what came of Billie Jean King... 
and her failed marriage to her Larry...
we learn what became of Bobby Riggs 
and his Priscilla...  (They remarried!) 
But narrow a clue is given of what came of 
''Marilyn'' the hairdresser 
who so generously and so conveniently 
was there to help Billie Jean 
go gay!!! 

AND THIS WAS THE LONE TRUE 
''SECRET'' 
THAT THIS FILM 
COULD DISPENSE...!!! 
THE SECRET AFFAIR 
BEHIND THE SCENES 
OF THIS ''EVENT''...


And Sara can can it with her tune there: 
it adds nothing to a non-point! 

A cause célèbre, 
historical match-up 
and ''major turning point'' 
they said, referencing it...

A non-event, a farce and a sham, 
if you ask me

And a very average movie, too! 

One imagines, also, that IIana 
(or whatever her name is - 
Billie Jean's old lover; 
she's just a dyke 
like most everyone else! 
But she may have 
a jealous streak...? 
Sing it to the tune 
of that old Michael Jackson classic now 
--- why don't you!) 
prevented any more importance 
or time in the spotlight be given 
the character of ''Marilyn'' there... 
She's not part of the purported-to-be 
''match of the century'' there; 
she was just the love interest... 
her fate is unimportant - is that it?!?






REALLY, FOLKS, 
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN 
THIS MOVIE INSTEAD:

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