Review of Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992) by Carreh R — 30 Jan 2016

Very interesting use of film clips to argue that Rock Hudson was kind of telling us he was gay all along but no one was seeing it, well not really as there were suspicions about his sexuality even when I was growing up but no one knew for sure, It is possible that some of the clips were taken out of context but not all of them and the film plots of some films did play with Rock's character as being a straight man pretending to be gay etc (think Pillow Talk).

In film studies we learn that all film interpretations are correct as long as one backs up their views with sound arguments. I think Mark Rappaport has done that. A lot of people gave this documentary bad reviews.

Maybe they still can't stand that an icon of maleness was gay but having been around the gay community for many years I can attest that some gay men are the most macho around. Orientation has nothing to do with manliness contrary to popular opinion.

People may be able to hang on to their cognitive dissonance by criticizing this film but they can't ignore how and why Rock Hudson died. No one can.