The Gay Gen-X Film: Exploring Gregg Araki’s Totally F***ed Up

The best film of the Trilogy, but not my favorite.

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Yes, yes, I know I said I would tackle this bad gay boy last spring. I must confess I underestimated this film and its artistic implications. Life for the GSM community in the Early ’90s isn’t as simple as reruns of Golden Girls and endless bottles of Fruitopia. Or maybe I overthought everything and didn’t swiftly process my jumbled reflections. Yeah, the latter sounds right.

Because I truly believe this film is important not just to the GSM community, or even Araki’s rainbow-hued, disenfranchised oeuvre, but of a particular community I didn’t expect would play into this discussion.

And for those who got the MLWTTKK reference, excellent. Fifty points for Gryffindor.

So №2 in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy discussion is the 1993 bitter-infused, obvious-love-letter-to-Warhol-and-Goddard Totally F***ed Up. From a technological, structural standpoint, it’s the…