Gay theme not very subtle
The two leading men are obviously lovers. Stone is such a phony (the self-styled "radical truth-teller") not to make it explicit.
sharethere isn't a single movie on this site that has a male lead where one gay likes to chime and discuss the homo-erotic subthemes of the lead...i could care less if someone like the hog or not, but to try to inject the gay into the movie is silly.
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You don't see the gayness between the two male leads? It's not at all subtle. I don't even know why they threw a girl in there at all. Hell, did you see the ending? Blake's character pretty much calls 'em out for it.
It was a difficult aspect of the film to deal with. I mean, in this day and age, to have two young people so completely oblivious to their own feelings. I could see this kind of stilted dynamic 50 years ago, but it just makes these characters seem unbelievably stupid. (Of course, that's not the only thing in this movie that makes the leads look like fools.)
and right after the 'do you think (blank) and (blank) were secretly gay' question comes the 'it wasn't so subtle'...
yawn.
it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it