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[MissAmbiguity]

It's about a decade old and I've watched snippits of it online.  I was about ten the first time I watched it and all those homosexual undertones went right over my head (minus the boat scene, I think I knew then).

Question: If it's not explicitly stated, think the kiddies will pick up on it? Or was I just overly naive?

Also, the movie is made out of win =D

[Lines]

I saw it when it came out and then I saw it again a year or two ago and I didn't care for it either time. But I picked up on the homosexual overtones (or really, it's more like bisexual, as he had an obsession with both of them) the first time I saw it. I guess it just depends on how aware you are of sexuality at a younger age.

[Border Reiver]

Since when is a movie that is a decade old count as an old movie?  I have copies of Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu in my DVD collection - those are "old". 

Damn kids these days...

And yes, the kiddies will likely not pick up on the undertones.  Same sort of undertones existed in older movies all the time and most critics and censors never picked up on them (ex. Spartacus [Kirk Douglas version not the recent Gorjan Visknic one])

[öde]

Almost 10 years old isn't old. I think I picked up on the undertones but I was young enough to not think of them in a sexual way, so I didn't really think about them I guess.

[KickThatBathProf]

Well yeah it has been like 35 years or so

[Lines]

If Christopher Lee doesn't have all white hair, then yes, it's old. (I think he was starting to go grey from what I remember.)

[Border Reiver]

So, then the copies I have of Hammer's The Mummy, Horror of Dracula, and Evil of Frankenstein where he had dark hair count as old then?

[a pack of wolves]

Yes! It's pretty much my favourite film of all time and it did the same to me the first time I saw it. I think that panning shot of the water is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Everything in that film is perfect though, a single shot from it is worth more attention than most other films in their entirety. The discussions on art, that poem (I believe by Tarkovsky's father, who was a notable poet), the amazing scene in the meat grinder, the whole idea of throwing metal with cloth attached to determine the safe path, oh god that shot of the dog that's so amazingly done... I get excited just thinking about that film.

You should watch Mirror if you haven't already. It has a similar level of heartbreaking melancholy, depth and incredible attention to visual detail. And then there's his superb film of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, although it deviates from the book somewhat and leaves a few of the themes out (you pretty much have to, Lem's book brings in a ridiculous number of concepts) it's pretty faithful to the feel. Very, very good, although I hear Lem hated it.