The Picture of Dorian Gray has all the trappings of the classic gay tragedy. The unrequited love of the tortured artist for the straight, upper class, charismatic jock who has everything but is also actually a massive douchebag. The story really isn’t about Dorian, but about the sorrow of the gay men who constantly fall in love with people like him. Literally a cautionary tale Favorite line: “every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” Rating: 4/5