Film review: All Of Us Strangers

Abstract

The film All Of Us Strangers hit our cinema screens in January 2024, and made an instant big impact on the public and critics winning multiple awards. On the surface, it is the story of a gay screenwriter who begins to face the grief of the loss of his parents through writing. He recently moved in a new, empty building. He met the other occupant in the building, and embarked on an intimate relationship together. This film is much more than the surface description above. It is not what it seems at first glance. It is not only a love story or a grief story, it is actually a film that shows the deeper layers of the inner world of many gay men through symbolic representations.

Keywords:

• LGBTQ
• homophobia
• internalised homophobia
• minority stress
• gay men

Disclosure statement

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