Antiracist Accountability x Belated Pride Post: "Fire Island"

Hello again,

I wanted to write a pride post this year despite not getting to it during actual pride month, so here we go!

Let's talk about "Fire Island" (2022)!

Written and starred in by Joel Kim Booster, "Fire Island" deftly updates Pride and Prejudice by transporting it to New York's Fire Island, long regarded as a major gay vacation destination.  While its foundation in that literary allusion grants the film a comfortable narrative arc that many viewers will recognize either from reading the original or from its multiple film adaptations and references, it also delightfully shakes up and updates what could be a tired narrative by centering gay men of color (and Margaret Cho!) at the heart of the story.  The result is as charming and amusing as it is also imbued with a sweet heart plus a little dash of pathos.

This film continues a seemingly robust parade of extremely enjoyable, high quality comedies from Hulu, which makes me excited to see what they might have in store next!

I gave the movie a 4.

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