We’re guessing that’s why Amazon banned it. At one point, several of the actors even appear to get aroused on camera. That includes lots of man-on-man sex and full frontal nudity so graphic the movie skirts the edge of pornography. From there The Prince goes on to follow Jamie’s coming of age, and examine some very strange contradictions in the ultra-macho–and very homoerotic–world of masculine identity. Upon his arrival, he immediately becomes the bottom for a prison crime lord of sorts. The Prince tells the story of Jamie, a young gay man sent to prison in Chile in the 1970s.
Whatever it says, this excellent Chilean film ended up on a list of banned titles by Amazon the first week of its release. Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.
