Vice: "'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ Belongs to Bisexuals

Vice: "'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ Belongs to Bisexuals—Fight Me"

- January 09, 2019

Jan 7 2019, 2:30pm

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.

Guy Ritchie’s 2015 retro spy flick The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a fantastic and fundamentally bisexual movie, and I will die on this hill.

As a bisexual cinephile, I find myself queering most films I watch. Unless and until I’m told otherwise, all movie characters are bi. Still, some movies stand apart. Not because they explicitly embrace queerness, but because they feelqueer on some deeper level. They exhibit queer themes, queer aesthetics, queer politics. They lend themselves to queering by the audience—the Babadook didn’t become a gay icon by declaring his love for a man or wearing a rainbow hat. It’s in the subtext, people!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is one such queerable film. A remake of the 1964 series of the same name (which itself didn’t exactly scream "straight"), the film exudes bisexual energy at every turn, both narratively and in the chemistry, between not only its three protagonists but virtually everyone they come into contact with.

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