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Queer Men Grapple With Seeing Themselves in Plainclothes and Twinless
Two films at this year’s Sundance depict romances derailed by acts of surveillance.
The director’s feature debut premiered Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival, telling the story of Lucas (Tom Blyth), a plainclothes cop in Syracuse who lures gay men into public restrooms under the pretense of a hookup only to arrest them for indecent exposure. Plainclothes is set in the 1990s, but Emmi’s subject matter is ever-prescient: “I saw an article in the L.A. Times in 2016 about an undercover police officer who was arresting men in a Long Beach park bathroom. Around that time I was in the last stages of coming out, and coincidentally my brother was becoming a police officer.” The confluence of these events led Emmi toward a lot of free-writing and journaling around this topic until that eventually became the script for Plainclothes.
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