Gay guys can relate.
The townspeople start acting strangely. Sounds like a sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers thing. A little boy appears in a second story window.One of the boys says "We save Joey, then we save our parents, and then we get out!"
Could they be a gay couple?
It's worth a look.
They mention the captain of the football team, but not the girl he's with.
The priest of the local church (or a Protestant minister who wears a clerical collar) tells them about a production of Jesus Christ, Superstar. "There will be girls!" he squeals in heterosexist glee.
"We're definitely not going to that!" they agree. Obviously not interested in girls.
They tell their friend Kayla about their project, and she says "You can both get rich and date starlets."
They look at each other umcomfortably.
Gay guys in a town where everyone is pushing the "girls! girls! girls!" brainwashing all the time. No wonder they want to escape.
Whoops. She leaves. Randy tells Zack: "Dude, you have to ask her out."
Ok, so Zack is straight. Their discomfort at the "girls! girls! girls!" rhetoric was just a tease.
But do they at least have a gay-subtext buddy bond, where they rescue each other from the horrors ahead, and walk off into the sunset together?
Fast forward to last scene. Zack and Kayla are saving the kid. They have been the central pair all along, Randy having vanished as soon as his usefulness for the gay tease ended.
Or maybe it's not a gay tease at all. Maybe the pod people are a metaphor for heterosexist brainwashing, how gay boys are being pressured every moment of every day to like girls, talk about girls, desire girls, claim that girls are the meaning of life. Resistance is futile.
