The subject sounds slight, but Thorpe digs surprisingly deep, asking questions about stereotypes and self-loathing that are seldom asked. This is how he describes the moment in his documentary “ Do I Sound Gay?,” which opens this weekend at the IFC Center. On a train to Fire Island, he was repelled by the chattering men around him, who sounded like “a bunch of braying ninnies.” When he listened to himself, he felt “out of synch” with his own voice. Or is there? Not long after Thorpe broke up with his boyfriend, he began thinking about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both suddenly bothered him so much. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. You know what I’m getting at? He sounds gay. It’s a little floaty on the cadences, a little strong on the “S”s. The filmmaker David Thorpe has a warm, woolly speaking voice with a bit of a lilt. Documentarian David Thorpe digs surprisingly deep, asking questions about stereotypes and self-loathing that are seldom asked.
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