The Visual Aesthetic of Teenage Social Hierarchy
External markers of expression become more than aesthetic–they become symbolic of societal barriers being broken. [...] Whether it is pink on Wednesdays, sharing sunglasses during a Saturday detention, or splitting a plastic crown into many pieces, the clothing characters wear and the objects they carry matter.
Queer Melodrama: Analyzing the Aesthetics of 1987’s Law of Desire
The [final] scene’s juxtaposition of exterior forces, symbolized by law and order, with the interior spaces, realms of sexual freedom, underscores essential dichotomies inherent in queer cinema. These dichotomies are no longer a subtext since the queer experience does not hide between ideas of representability but lies in representation.