Thisclip is offered in hope of making available an English-language version of "Young Americans" (YA) of higher visual quality than seems to have been available online, together with comments (below) that may enhance appreciation of YA as dramatic art. Questions that may be worth asking about YA episode 7, part 2, include: -- Ryder's close proximity to and apparent "sniffing" of "Jake" Pratt, coupled with his remark about "genetic mutations," when he catches Hamilton Fleming and Pratt making out in the Rawley library, seems intended to suggest that Ryder may suspect that Pratt is a girl. Ryder's olfactory investigation of Pratt parallels the scene in episode 1 in which Fleming remarks that Pratt's cap smells good; pheromones are not hidden by cross-dressing, and Ryder, being deceptive and destructive, seems less likely than Fleming's to exclude possibilities of self-destructive gender deception. To Pratt, Fleming says of Ryder's intrusion that it was "funny;" Pratt replies that it was, rather, "close." Does Fleming seem likely not to suspect that Ryder may suspect Pratt's true gender? -- Will Krudski, discussing with Caroline Busse Pablo Naruda's "Love Sonnet XCIII," about inability to live without love, observes that the poem voices passion. How may sexual passion, such as Krudski allows himself to feel for Caroline, fuel passion for moral growth, for enhanced compassion? -- In the first of this episode's two dock scenes, Ryder's malice begins to target Fleming and ...
Keywords: YA 7_2 HD, Young Americans, Steven Antin, Twelfth Night, Orpheus and Eurydice, Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Cupid and Psyche, Wife of Bath's Tale, Gawain and Ragnell, test of true love, passion and compassion, eros and agape, rejuvenation, redemption, Jake and Hamilton, Kate Bosworth, Mark Famiglietti, Katherine Moennig, Rodney Scott, Ian Somerhalder, Ed Quinn, Matt Czuchry, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Monaghan
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