Carol is named as best gay film of all time by panel of experts

I'd say it was just accidentally overlooked, because BITWC is certainly one of the greatest gay-themed films I've ever seen.

It comes back to the fact that some people's idea of "gay films" is films that are completely inaccessible to straight people or non-gays. It doesn't occur to people like this that a straight male with bisexual tendencies might actually RELATE to a gay woman with bisexual tendencies because all human beings have SOME THINGS in common. No, the only reason a straight guy would watch a movie like this, according to these idiots, is because Adele and Lea give him a boner. Well, so does Rooney Mara (costar of "Carol") truth be told, but that's really beside the point. If being sexually attracted to someone precludes you from relating to them as a human being, then gays and lesbians shouldn't be able to relate to EACH OTHER.

"Carol" is a more STEREOTYPICAL gay movie and I'm sure it also appeals more the "gay community" for that reason, but that doesn't really make it a BETTER movie. "Carol" certainly isn't a bad movie, but sometimes these things are just much more about gender/sexual politics than artistic appreciation.



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Which film do you think should have been named the best then?
Surely not 'Blue is the Tedious Colour'

Carol won't be remembered in 10 years. It's such a self-righteous cheese-fest with the kind of hammy generic writing that all the critics praising it would cringe at if its lead characters weren't perfectly victimized lesbians. It's a movie-of-the-week effort that's saved by some good performances and nothing more.

BTW I love both BITWC and Carol