On paper, SLON Logan's movie in 2022 "They/them" they/them " (pronounced "those-redness-themes") is a great idea. Like so many horror films before, "They/them" are set on a summer camp where campers and councilors are systematically killed by a mysterious striker, similar to any of the "Friday 13th" or "Sleep Camp". However, this time, the summer camp is a Wistler camp, one of those monstrous gay conversion camps. Campers are all children with queer, who have been sent there against their will by parental parents who believe that their unusuality can be eliminated through systematic religious abuse and torture. In 2020, The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims The declared conversion camps are a form of torture. As for this writing, only 27 of the 50 United States banned them.

The protagonist of "They/them" is Jordandan (Theo Germerman), an irrelevant teenager who aims to emancipate from their parents. Jordandan is one of only a small number of Chinese protagonists who are declaratively irrelevant. The film is advancing as expected, with the day being filled with the humiliation of "Therapy" supervised by the disturbing light advisor on the head Owen (Kevin Bacon). Meanwhile, the nights are filled with fear, as the hunter lurking around the camp, killing employees.

Again, on paper, this feels like a great thriller for revenge in the center of people running conversion camps. However, in execution, the film falls flat, failing to solve its ideas very well or dig deeper into the true horrors of the conversion camps. It is also clumsy recorded and not very scary, representing 4 of the 10 average rating of Imdb. Brian Talerica was one of the many critics who gave the film an unbreakable overview, Writing for Rogerebert.com That "they/them" are trying to be both camps and serious, but they still fail to withdraw that act of balancing, much less involved with their topics in any important way. Of course, the national team is important, but the execution also makes execution.

Talking to People's magazine However, in 2022, Bacon said he was proud to be associated with "they/them" - mostly because of his image of queer, but also because of her serious attempts to expose and excursion to conversion camps.

The bacon is not certainly alien to horror films And he played his share of his career, but Owen Wistler may be one of his most notable characters. Bacon had to play the role as he could (and, as always, he was doing exemplary work), but the actor was more focused on his co-stars. He rejoiced in sharing a screen with more queer young actors, who was very admired and inspired by. In people's interview, he was very open to his feelings, saying:

"While I was really in the main space of the character, there was some of me that felt very prompted by the fact that there was this group of our future, to young people who identified all the different types of ways that gathered and gathered and presented in this film, in the hope that they were often not in the past.

"They/them" was written and directed by Logan, a screenwriter nominated for an Oscar of "Gladiator", "Aviator" and "Hugo". Logan is also nominated for Emmy and wins Tony, so it is enough to say, he is not weak when it comes to making movies. However, with "they/them", he felt out of his element, unable to grasp the basic, attractive excitement that make a decent weaker. Perhaps he and Bacon were supposed to rework the original "Friday the 13th", which is one of Bacon's earliest films.

However, as Bacon has noted, "they/them" can still provide valuable service to all young children of the queer/trance/non -fashionable they can see. As he said, "a kid who feels" except "or closed or harassed will watch the film and see someone who is a little more like them feels" yes, let's shoot with ass "and solidarity". It's not a classic queer, But if "they/them" help a child, then it is done well enough.