'A Single Movie' sounds like a gay movie to me but I guess Tom Ford sees it differently.
According to the PR 'A Single Man' is the story of George Falconer, a 52-year-old British college professor [Colin Firth] who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim [Matthew Goode]. George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. George is consoled by his closest friend Charley [Julianne Moore], a 48-year-old beauty who is wrestling with her own questions about the future. A young student of George’s, Kenny [Nicholas Hoult], who is coming to terms with his true nature, stalks George as he feels in him a kindred spirit.
Sounds like a gay movie to me but I guess debut director Tom Ford sees it a bit differently. I've been looking forward to the movie right up until I stumbled upon a quote from a new article at the Wall Street Journal where Ford denies that it's a gay movie after all.
Above synopsis to the contrary, of course.
“I wasn’t trying to make Terminator 12," Ford tells the WSJ. "But this is not a gay film. I don’t even think about that. There are so many gay characters on TV that it’s almost become a cliché.”
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean but it's still a pretty lame thing to say.
