![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of the movie, when Brian and a bloodied Dom await sirens to bring Dom into custody and the men stare at each other in a prolonged, heated silence, you momentarily wonder if they’re going to go in for a kiss. But with a steady stream of smoldering stares, muscle T’s, and roguish flirtation via three-ton racing vehicle, the true romantic subjects and their “torrid, homoerotic-bromantic chemistry” was hard to miss. Yes, there were female love interests: Brian was permitted to pine for Dom’s sister (Jordana Brewster) as a proxy, while Dom was with a butch woman named Letty (Michelle Rodriguez, a longtime queer-baiter who eventually came out as bisexual). ![]() Whatever the case, the saga of Dom (the name alone) and Brian (Paul Walker) was from the start a Romeo-and-Juliet tale of an FBI agent and a career criminal fighting their positions in life to be together. If the original The Fast and the Furious was provably a remake of Point Break with car-driving thieves instead of surfing bank robbers, its weird homoerotic energy may have been inherited. ![]()
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