Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.

Designer’s Game is a crime drama short film that follows a young broke graphic designer into the descent of a life of crime working in the deep web in the city of Chicago. With a new-found life with easy money, he thinks all is okay until a client comes back, but not in the way he thinks.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
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