Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. The first installment of Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, Totally Fucked Up is a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre.
Totally Fucked Up chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face ...
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Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. The first installment of Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, Totally Fucked Up is a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre.
Totally Fucked Up chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. Araki classified it as "a rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground....a kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick."
Totally Fucked Up was released on Region 1 DVD on June 28, 2005.
The plot is concerned with six teenagers, four of whom are gay men, the other two a "traditional" lesbian couple. The plot is spliced with segments of other material and occasional tangents not central to the plot, but it mainly follows a linear structure. Araki has constructed the film in...
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