This image is rooted in Oscar’s traumatic childhood discovery of the victim of a heinous, homophobic hate crime. In addition to chatting with Buffy, Oscar has constant visions of being impaled on a large iron pole, which juts from his stomach like a bloody, phallic object.
Both films use imagery and camerawork as a means of evoking the protagonist’s feelings of uncertainty, but “Closet Monster” resides in a more surrealistic universe. Like the superior “ Moonlight,” “Closet Monster” tells the story of queer youth navigating the rocky waters of self-acceptance.
