'The Birdcage' is a Fun Film to Watch for Pride Month
The relationship between the characters is what makes this film stand out, and it’s just all-around fun.

A once brilliant teenager battling drug addiction seeks family support to heal his emotional wounds, but his conservative father's harsh discipline and mistrust risk tearing their family apart.
The relationship between the characters is what makes this film stand out, and it’s just all-around fun.
With the theme of unemployment, it presents a family fantasy anecdote rather the a comment on social problems.
While it is more than established that Halston’s life is far from a fairytale, the narrative suffers as a result of the decision to revolve more around sex and drugs than his artistry, it likely does a disservice to his cultural impact by pulling focus from his achievements.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
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