Last Monday we treated ourselves to a bad movie classic by one of the worst directors, if not the worst, in the history of film, Edward D. Wood, Jr. (who also plays the title role). The movie was “Glen Or Glenda” a semi-autobiographical story that is mostly about a man who likes to wear women’s clothing, a hobby Ed Wood himself enjoyed. Considering this, you would think the film would be more . . . positive? Sympathetic? Instead it essentially says that there are two types of cross-dressers: men who wear women’s clothes because of some childhood difficulties that must be resolved by partners in adulthood and men who want to actually be women and they are probably either hermaphrodites or pseudo-hermaphrodites. Tumblr’s social justice brigade would have a field day of outrage. Also, this is only about half the movie. The rest is stock footage, Bela Lugosi waxing poetic about the horrors of life, and a curious S&M scene that Lugosi watches in traumatized interest. The plot is paper thin, dialogue and scenes are repeated so often you can get up and use the bathroom at any time, and the acting isn’t even slightly believable but somewhere beneath all that failure, is probably a decent message about acceptance. Too bad it’s probably covered in a stock footage superimposition of running bulls.Quote: [Huge Bela face] "PULL THE STRING!"
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