Tentacle Porn (no, really).
After traveling all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In, we changed up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick in Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Now we’re making our first journey to Mexico as we discuss the tentacle alien monster at the center (end?) of Amat Escalante‘s The Untamed (2016).
In the film, Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) and Ángel (Jesús Meza) are in a troubled marriage. The closeted Ángel is secretly having an affair with Alejandra’s brother Fabián (Eden Villavicencio). When Alejandra finds out, she seeks solace in her new friend Verónica (Simone Bucio), who tells her of a strange meteorite containing a mysterious creature that acts as a source of both pleasure and destruction.
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Episode 175: The Untamed (2016)
Strap in because we’re discussing our first Mexican film and boy is it a doozy! We’re going to be discussing all the internalized homophobia and tentacle alien monster sexcapades in Amat Escalante’s 2016 film The Untamed!
Join us as we try to figure out what the tentacle alien monster represents while, laud the film for its realistic (and graphic!) depiction of gay sex and then jump right into adding a new letter to the LGBTQIA acronym (someone alert GLAAD!).
Plus: meat-eating as a sign of masculinity, the importance of breaking tradition, questionable police interrogation rooms and a crater of copulating creatures.
Cross out The Untamed!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling our newest release ever on the main feed in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (which is currently available to rent on VOD)!
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