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Movies about Late Life Gay Bloomers

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These are movies I've found useful about people discovering (or recognizing) their homosexuality late in life - the tragic Late Bloomer. Far From Heaven involves interlocking forbidden relationships. The husband has been concealing his homosexuality, but it's uncovered unintentionally during an arrest, and another time when the wife surprises him at the office. This is a great movie. All the major characters end up the worse for their experience and discovery. I think there's hidden meanings in the colors used for different scenes, and also for the titles on movie marquees seen during the film.

An Accident at Dam Four

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There are imperfect and sloppy suicides; there are effective and efficient suicides. What sets the two apart? If you're going to manage a successful suicide, what are the criteria? I mean, it happens often enough. We can tell A+ suicides from D- suicides. Let's take a first attempt at judging them by the outcomes: Death achieved; no secondary injuries; nobody else traumatized; your children and dependants believe it was an accident . The body is found and identified. It's the suicide wrapped up as a tragedy, with success ranging from complete acceptance of the death as an accident, to uncertainty but the tragedy is sufficiently believable to comfort the survivors. Death achieved. No secondary injuries. Others are traumatized. The event is perceived as suicide. You might be missing before the body is found and identified. Death achieved at the expense of others (suicide by cop, suicide by driver). Events seen as suicide. Death achieved with notorious violence. See Budd Dw...