Maybe It Isn't So Gay After All

From the always interesting film writer Andrew Sarris:

Mr. Stone tries to minimize what many consider the great divide between gay and straight by tricking up the gay love scenes between Alexander and Hephaistion (Jared Leto) with coded eye contact and a preference for fraternal bear-hugs over man-on-man lip-and-tongue action. By contrast, the one out-and-out straight marital-sex scene is jazzed up by a violently jealous Roxane (played by the Puerto Rican-African-Cuban-Irish-American actress Rosario Dawson), who pulls a knife on Alexander after she catches him fondling another man; much of the scene is played with Roxane topless. Ho-hum—so what else is new? Ironically, what was once a puritanical prohibition in Hollywood’s Production Code against the mixing of "races" has become merely a historical footnote to the current homosexual taboo.

Oh well.