Tropes

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We went last night to Reading Biscuit Factory to see All of Us Strangers. Overall, it was a good film, but it was too disturbing for me to say I enjoyed it. I found it confusing that Adam's parents were about the same age as him; given that his parents had died in a car crash when he was a child, perhaps they were foster parents, I thought? The time-slip aspect wasn't really clear until later on in the film. And I suppose it had perhaps too many tropes for me: gay men, drug and alcohol abuse, death. I was surprised that it had received a 15 certificate, although I recall there were a long list of content warnings on the BBFC slide. Sometimes I think LGBT+ films could do with a bit more Socialist Realism.