Were The World Mine

What teen has not imagined to hold the power of changing a conventional personality into more of a free-spirited Bohemian of the new millennium? Tom Gustafson‘s “Were the World Mine,” puts homosexuality vs heterosexuality to the test. A small-town gay teen converts his traditional straight town to bat for the other team with the help of Cupid's love potion. The foundation of the Shakespearean classic "A Midsummer Night's Dream" challenges the film to portray the difficulty of same-sex love and the distortion of the magical superstition. With this wish-fulfillment fantasy of using a magical, squirting purple pansy as an inimitable conversion, the film becomes a symbol of the unreasonable and erratic powerful nature of love, the bizarre and uncanny effects of dangerous desire, and the everlasting yearning for acceptance.