7.
Pulp Fiction
1994
Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino's oeuvre has recurring themes of homoeroticism and male sexual tension, but his most disturbing to date may come from the film that skyrocketed him to fame, Pulp Fiction. In the scene that finds Butch (Bruce Willis) with Marsellus (Ving Rhames) bound by redneck pawn shop owners and waiting to be sodomized, a silent masked figure known only as "the gimp" is being used (and abused) by the men as a sex object. Centered around male-on-male rape fears and fantasies, it propagates ideas of gay sex shame and perversions that only escalate in Tarantino's much-ballyhooed Django Unchained.
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