Outdated reproduction of the clichee that every male-to-male love story has to contain either separation or the death of one of the men, as endlessly retold in 20th century cinema from 1919 ('Anders als die andern') to 1996 ('Beautiful Thing', first major exception). Typical progressive panels like the ones at Sundance and GLAAD unexplainably ignored the imagery of unintended and internalised homophobia.
Review of Undertow
