Black Hole has a curious property, that it's not an AIDS metaphor. It's set at roughly the right time; it's got some of the right ideas (sexual transmission, ostracism of victims, striking down of the young and beautiful) but there's a couple of ways in which it pointedly avoids talking about AIDS (the actors are just a bit too young, and much too straight).
In a literary sense arguably that mean it gains points for avoiding cliché. In a social sense you could say it's a cop-out, if you were looking for an AIDS metaphor, but I think it is adequately redeemed by what it does want to talk about; it is coming from the same place as Heathers, for instance, or perhaps even The Breakfast Club.
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Black Hole has a curious property, that it's not an AIDS metaphor. It's set at roughly the right time; it's got some of the right ideas (sexual transmission, ostracism of victims, striking down of the young and beautiful) but there's a couple of ways in which it pointedly avoids talking about AIDS (the actors are just a bit too young, and much too straight).
In a literary sense arguably that mean it gains points for avoiding cliché. In a social sense you could say it's a cop-out, if you were looking for an AIDS metaphor, but I think it is adequately redeemed by what it does want to talk about; it is coming from the same place as Heathers, for instance, or perhaps even The Breakfast Club.
I want to watch more 80s John Hughes now...