Gomez goes gay in Kiss of the Spider Woman?

Matt, I gotta tell you, very few times have I both enjoyed and actually learned from a foreigner talking about a Brazilian movie. Usually, there’s a lot they miss, especially because they don’t even try to understand the cultural and/or historical context. Even though what we’re talking about here in The Kiss of the Spider Woman is kind of universal, you were very successful in tackling all the layers this movie has, proving you gathered the proper knowledge to speak about it with authority.
I watched The Kiss of the Spider Woman when I was in my early 20s, since I was a teenager in ’85. This film was a big deal in Brazil for so many obvious reasons, and you did it justice. It was also a delight to find out that Patricio Bisso had been involved in its production—I did not know! Patricio was such a wonderful artist, famous in Brazil for his character Olga del Volga. He and Hector Babenco always made us proud that they had chosen Brazil as their home (Bisso, at least for many years, and Babenco had even been naturalized).
Thank you so much for making such great content on your channel. A kiss from Brazil.

DID YOU SAY MEXICO NEW YORK? AKA the small, very conservative farming town of less than 2,000 people I grew up in?!?!
I must have heard you wrong…
Because literally nobody knows about Mexico NY. Wow.
I’m literally floored right now.

I’ve lived half my life in Los Angeles now, but my mind is still blown that anyone of importance lived in my small hometown. 🤯

I’ve been binging your vids but out of order and wish I had seen this one sooner.

TBH I’m not surprised Mexico never mentioned since it’s still very conservative-heavy. Sigh.

37:17 "Nancy (Reagan) may have found it hard to swallow …."

lol

Pretty sure I've never seen it. Man, younger Raul Julia was kinda hot. And always a great actor ❤

I liked the 1985 movie, loved the Kander & Ebb musical, and absolutely adored the 2025 movie! I guess it's finally time to read the book 🕸️

as a queer person and a immigrant thanks for shouting out the injustice happening atm

Tonatiuh is pronounced To-na-tiu with an aspirated h.

I remember they would show this movie at night in the 80s. I was a kid and enjoyed the politics and different world. I feel like the Matrix has some influence on this.

1:40 as an elem teacher I’ve told many parents their son was “a pleasure to have in class.” I wonder how long it’ll take for the parents to realize what I meant.

Gahd, tell me where you got that shirt

03:09 dude, love your work but you are attributing to Perón the human rights violations of the regimes that took place between the Peronist periods. Peronism was actually banned alongside communism during the 1950s and 1960s… and specially between 1976 and 1983…

Love to see brazilian icons mentioned in foreign YouTube channels.

I bought the first print edition of that book back in 2023, halfway done with the book but haven’t read it since then. I hope I still have that book, it’s so good from what I remember. It was meant for my ex but I ended up reading it.

Matt, Thanks! Kiss of the Spider Woman and Torch Song Trilogy are the two films that helped me gain the courage to come out in 1989, Please do a review of Torch Song Trilogy film.

7:18 im something of an aging queen marxist, myself

I’ve seen this film once when it came out. Now it’s never on anywhere 😔

I was eighteen and on a date in oxnard, california when I saw this film in nineteen eighty five. It was such a wonderful film and the audience was sold out, but audience reaction, especially to the intimate scenes, was not good.
I remember a lot of specifically disgusted exclamations and shouts.Some people leaving. I remember my date and I were kind of concerned about going to the car but it was a wonderful experience to talk about the meaning in them production and the performances and the caring for each other that was so obvious in the film. The date was definitely a friend zone.But I think of that film frequently still.

That's the sameWilliam hurt, who used to beat up his women

I saw it in a movie theatre.
I was transfixed by Raul Julia.

“I was miserable mouse… Minnie Mouse” this line tickled me 😂

This was never a movie that was on my radar but the last scene where the cop has the gun on him and he just closes his eyes. That was so beautiful and amazing.

Such a good movie.

Gomez could have all of me

Raul was one of those actors you will never forget. His talent was enormous. He wasn't afraid to try anything. He was a actors actor. May his family be blessed with peace that God has him in his hands.

I remember seeing this movie on tv one night, on one of the edgy racy channels, and I was amazed this film had been made and was also even being shown on tv, even on that edgy channel.
Seeing anything with gay characters back then that wasn’t a big joke, was amazing and really exciting to see for young me.

Mom watched Kiss of the Spiderwoman in theaters. She was a film critic for her highschool newspaper and watched a lot of weird and shocking films but she didn't watch another movie for a year afterwards. She said it just was so upsetting. Thinking about how the world is now and how she passed I couldn't watch this video for a month because I knew thinking of Kiss of the Spiderwoman would upset me probably as much.