As the month of pride begins 2025, it is difficult to know how to feel. With the news of members of the US government, they pass laws on anti-trans Increase in Anti-LGBTQ+ Sentiment It appears on an almost daily basis, the obvious answer is for the people of Peder and their allies to be louder and louder than ever. But it is easier to say than it has been done, especially when incidents like The death of actor Athonatan Ossos as a result of alleged hate crime They are a strict reminder that the ordinary act of existing ones can still be enough to kill people with queer.

The question of how to live as a queer, whether your life is constantly under a microscope or not, lies in the heart of "written like him". Director Matt Wolf's two -part documentary about the life and time of the late and, it should be said without saying, the Great Paul Rubens has won universal praise since making his world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, so it would be expected to be expected to be expected. WBD CEO David Zaglav and his regime may not know how to name a streaming serviceBut they certainly know how to manipulate a marginalized community for their benefit. (Don't think we've forgotten That "our flag means restoring a cascade for death" withdraw for pride 2022.)

Of course, just because her streaming was a calculated strategy not to do "writes", less influential and important than it is. It is therefore satisfactory to see that the film is ranked among the top 10 most trophy TV shows on HBO Max as of June 4, 2025, as published by Flixpatrol. (Again, it's really a two -part documentary, not a series, but we'll use the win.)

How do you do an intimate, insightful documentary about an artist who deliberately got out of his way to keep his personal life out of the spotlight? Reubens glorious spent more time to appear as a sign of talk shows, attending film premieres, and even co-glows in other films (like Cech's next film and Jong, "as Wolf's documentary) tells) His beloved man-child alter ego, pi-wa-herman than he himself. In a piece that must be read about who wrote VultureWolf has revealed in greater depth of how challenging the film-much less to make his subject talk about his sexuality and the Loveback life of the camera-for the self-recognized need of Rubins to maintain strict control over his narrative at any time.

So, instead of resisting the tides, the wolf skillfully went through the flow and made Rubens' hesitance talk about himself about himself about the focus of the film almost as the real events in his life. "Pee-Wee like himself" also makes him painfully obviously where Rubens's evasiveness originated: as a gay man who, with his own reception, was as proud as he could have been, he chose to return "back into the closet" and deliberately avoid romantic relationships of all kinds, Both times he lost control of his narrative? He was arrested either on a patent absurd or extremely false bases not so secretly prompted by homophobia and suffered a lot about it.

I will not spoil the conclusion of the power of the wolf and Rubens of who is really in charge of shaping "writing like himself" (though, a fair warning, has a strong chance of finding yourself shed by the time they start rolling the loans). I will simply say that the wolf manages to paint a beautiful, richly complicated portrait of one of the kind of soul here and, thus, allows Rubens to give one last gift to the community of miracles and external people who nurtured him so much in life.

As for the fact that Rubens was not living to see the film itself? Well, as Pii once said, "I don't have to watch it, Dotti. I lived it."