And that’s still not the kinkiest or most disturbing part of the movie. Of course, I realize that sultry goddess of Cat People fame really isn’t disturbing in (or out of) anything…

Jodie Foster finally comes out. Or does she? That speech was as weird as Mel Gibson’s drunk ramblings. Almost. But in trying to understand what it must be like to be famous since you were a child, well, maybe this was just the ‘best she could do.’ What’s weird is that it’s so late in her story and in our lives, frankly, that you’d think she could just come out and be proud and not mince the words. But she can’t and that makes me feel sort of sorry for her. I think she thinks she came out. But having Mel as her prop looking like a deer in the headlights, a drunkyloo stare into space as the camera cuts to him as she says this, just makes me, again, feel sad. It’s 2013. That’s like 2060 in gay years.

Taking your comments (your thoughts on the matter are very much appreciated and carry all sorts of weight) I will have me another think about the speech, but as I said it reminded me of the corruptive forces of celebrity, and how sheltered and inappropriately famous (from the age of three!), she has little idea of what the external world looks or feels like.

As for Helen Hunt, I plucked her out of the ether because they kind of look alike, but I really don’t see Foster as a stand-alone talent. Taxi Driver was a great movie, and she was great in it, in a preternatural way, even, but since then?