A theme I saw in both Kiss and Mario Banana was the blurring of gender roles. In the first male-male kiss in Kiss, it took me a minute to realize that the man on the bottom was, indeed, a man. By having so many heterosexual couples kissing, one assumes the theme will simply continue.
The same goes for Mario Banana, in the idea that we have a man, dressed as a woman, seducing, whom? Is he seducing a man? A woman? Another transvestite? I suppose he is attempting to seduce anyone who watches the film, which is why his gender is so ambiguous.
Overall, very ahead of its time pieces, and certainly ones that make us consider how we have been raised to view gender roles.
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