Review of Freak Show (2018) by Enikmix — 18 Apr 2021

The freak show is a very underrated masterpiece (IMDb 6.6), most of you probably haven't even heard of this movie and it's probably fine. The film was originally aimed at a small audience, unfortunately in our world, only a small number of people will be interested in this film, the problems that it raises, the stereotypes that it shows.

Billie Bloom is my homecoming queen. The plot of the films at first glance is very simple LGBTQ boy moves to a small town, where he begins to hate almost all the students of the school. But there is no only black or only white, in the crowd of these haters, he finds Flip Kelly, Mark Kelly and a couple of other friends-acquaintances, but honestly this is nothing more than an extra.

I'm not going to tell you the whole story to be honest, it's not really important, so if you're interested in this movie, you can watch it. This one will be like a mirror for every LGBTQ person, the film shows harassment from a homophobic society, the film shows a friend (girlfriend) - an acquaintance (acquaintance) with whom you want to be together, but he is not an LGBTQ person, although you may sometimes think that this is so.

The film shows latent LGBTQ people who show homophobia only as a defense of themselves, but eventually, realize that they live in "someone else's skin" only because someone can condemn them or take the place of Billy Bloom.

The film shows how society is not ready to accept LGBTQ people, even if it treats them positively or neutrally. The film shows a friend ( girlfriend) who likes to spend time with you, who considers you his friend, but because of the fear that his (her ) ) they will also consider LGBTQ a person, or they will also start hounding you because of the fact that he ( she ) communicates with you, he (she ) as in the movie, he asks you to hide it or just turns away from you, either because of your refusal or because of other reasons.

Each of us needs a person like Billy Bloom, who can reveal to us our inner freak, who we really are without the mask that we wear when we go out into society. And as the film shows, when we open our inner freak to ourselves and others, many people will turn away from us.

But is it better to live under a mask, but in the approval of society, or to be what we are, even without those people who consider us freaks? Also, the film does not go into some fairy tale, wherein the end everything will be fine and everyone will accept you and everything will be fine, NO.

The film shows that even if people understand you, they will not be able to accept you (some of them) and eventually that friend will not take off his mask or just turn out to be an LGBTQ person and you will not live like in a fairy tale, the world will not become a beautiful place, etc.

In summary, I want to say that this film is ideal for those people who doubt who he really is, for already open LGBTQ people, this film will only be such a good look from the outside at themselves, that would understand what we do not owe this society.