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In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.
观众心声
我始终觉得艾滋病是美国政府失控的阴谋，为什么在一个最反同的总统的时候出现了一个主要针对同性恋的病毒，说是巧合我是不信的。
一个小书店高开低走，见证了历史与现实。老妈简直是Meryl梅姑附体啊，女王气场全开。片子里不少关键人物都在本片后相继离世。
更多的是对家庭代际间的思考
从猎奇到意外地喜爱与感动。一家贩卖同志色情制品的书店，串得起石墙事件前的波澜，也串得起被社会与自己囚禁成孤岛的人们。他们集体见证了80年代艾滋的恐慌，也见证了2008年网络冲击前人们渴求面对面交谈的炽热。那真是一座原始本能的圣殿与废墟，结合《邻人之妻》，能更直观地想象那段闭塞时光的千秋。有点可惜，这些地方都没看够，但纪录片拐向LGBT平权的角度很温馨，也很有力量。母亲Karen把生意与家庭分得很清，面对有悖于宗教信仰的同志儿子Josh，曾觉得那是上天对自己的惩罚，但最终因为“没办法不做他最好的母亲”而转变，开明的她说父母只会在一小段时间里显得“聪明”，于是只能带领孩子们迈出人生的最初几步，她说，“为改变而奋斗是父母的责任，而孩子所要做的，就是安享一个尽可能平常的生活”。看得莫名鼻酸。四星半。
7.5。店主一家的生活，母亲对同志儿子的接纳，书店的发展、经营和书店作为美国同性恋运动史的重要见证者所经历的历史事件，一个颇为传奇的故事，但所有东西都混在一起，缺少重点，彼此消融，导致整部片子平铺直叙还有点寡淡。