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In 1884, the marking of the prime meridian--that invisible north-south line through Greenwich, England, that universalized time throughout the world--also marked a monumental change in the way in which people thought about time and space. Yes, the theme of the movie may be universalized, as Alleva does, to suggest "the tragedy of emotional apartheid [which] none of us, no matter what our sexual orientation, is ever safe from," but at its literal level the film is about two men whose fundamental sense of self is constituted by their affective response to other men and what happens when that identity is repressed. Even the "old" social movements (Smith and Johnston 7) managed to nest the localized concerns of constituents within the universalized paradigms of "humanity, ecology or generational sustainability. |
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