the bitter suite

I've recently watched Rent for the first time (and I loved it), but there's one thing I noticed in "Seasons of Love" that felt a bit weird. I don’t know if people will agree with me, but like—there’s that line: "you know that love is a gift from up above." “Up above” usually means something divine, like god, right? The thing is, that line feels kind of out of character for them. The whole movie is about love—how even though they’re poor, have AIDS, and barely have enough money to eat, they still have each other. Their friendship, their love. So it feels weird to say that the only thing they really have—love—is something that comes from god. I might be overthinking this, but it doesn’t really make sense to me. First of all, none of them ever do anything that shows they believe in god (at least not in the sense of relying on him, praying, etc). And the only time he’s even mentioned is in La Vie Bohème—and it’s totally sarcastic, "to sodomy, it's between god and me", so to say that their love comes from God, and not from, like, themselves, idk just doesn’t sit right with me.

born to be Joanne forced to be Mark