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Nov. 3rd, 2025 03:35 am I titled my last entry "The Long Walk" and then forgot to talk about it at all. Spoiler-filled review ahead, for both the book and the movie.
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I'll end it on a kind of positive note -- there's one change that I'm not mad about, and that's the handling of homosexuality/masculinity. In the book there are subtle come-ons between Ray and McVries, and it gives Ray a huge crisis about his sexuality. It's "quiet" enough that I missed it as a teen, but loud enough to get ample space on the book's Wikipedia page. In the movie, it's much more explicit -- McVries, at least, is clearly gay, and there's a "coming out" moment where it's clear that Ray understands this and has to process it. We do lose all of Ray's sexuality crisis, though. He's still the POV character, but we really don't get inside his head, and he never speaks aloud about his sexuality or how he views his own masculinity. You win some, you lose some.
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I'll end it on a kind of positive note -- there's one change that I'm not mad about, and that's the handling of homosexuality/masculinity. In the book there are subtle come-ons between Ray and McVries, and it gives Ray a huge crisis about his sexuality. It's "quiet" enough that I missed it as a teen, but loud enough to get ample space on the book's Wikipedia page. In the movie, it's much more explicit -- McVries, at least, is clearly gay, and there's a "coming out" moment where it's clear that Ray understands this and has to process it. We do lose all of Ray's sexuality crisis, though. He's still the POV character, but we really don't get inside his head, and he never speaks aloud about his sexuality or how he views his own masculinity. You win some, you lose some.
