The kind that isn’t actually a “story.” It’s a process, writes itsNumberJuan on Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Photo: Chnnel Four There’s a scene from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie that has stuck with me ever since I first saw it in London’s West End — and it’s one the new musical film adaptation, streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, September 17, gets exactly right: “Work of Art.” The title character is forced by a spiteful teacher to walk through his school’s halls in poorly-applied drag as punishment for spending class time doing his makeup in the bathroom.
Photo: Channel Four Eventually, Jamie finds a local drag store and is taken under its owner, former queen Loco Chanelle’s, wing. Loco opens Jamie’s eyes, showing him home videos of his friends dancing and loving through the late ’80s collaged with actual footage of liberation protests, police breaking up queer club nights, and Freddie Mercury publicly announcing his HIV status — images of recognizably “masculine” resistance in the face of Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic society.
Later, drunk and disenchanted after confronting his mom’s well-intentioned lies about his absent, homophobic father, Jamie turns a team flag into a dress and storms a soccer field, finally catching his dad’s attention. His recklessness here could easily be read as disorderly hooligan behavior — and it is — but the film complicates this typically hyper-masculine act by turning it into one of defiance, with a feminized young boy pissing off a crowd full of straight men.
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