With DarkWatersMovie, ToddHaynes goes home again
), whose primary job is, for all intents and purposes, to find legal loopholes and excuses to protect large chemical companies, such as potential client DuPont. With a city job in Ohio, he has a nice home and burgeoning family.
Home as metaphor for safety and solace has never been so straightforward for queer people. Home, rather, can be a place of fear, frustration, confusion, judgment, categorization. As early as Haynes’ experimental debut,, an esoteric biopic using Barbie dolls, home was where the singer hid her eating disorder, where her self-loathing could root and begin to bloom.
Sometimes the only kind of home that’s safe is the one created between people, like that of Carol and Therese in Haynes’. In that case, the surfaces and spaces that matter are skin, hair, coats, hats and the proximity between bodies. Therese’s lack of assuredness dissipates the more time she spends with Carol, who also escaped conventional domesticity in favor for the little havens she creates with Therese on the road.
Haynes transposes the opaque surfaces of dull, domestic spaces to the world of corporate America with equally daunting fuzziness in. In the kitchen, where many of the chemicals poison residents and homemakers, Teflon becomes a spectre. For Haynes, the systems and institutions at play present themselves in multiple scales: as small as the pan in your dishwasher and as gigantic as an international company.
It recalls Haynes’ relationship to the legacy of AIDS, which informs nearly all of his films in some way, notably
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