Even at the beginning of the film, when Dorian wasn't that quite intoxicated with Lord Henry's ideologies yet, I've sensed the unusual closeness or rather strange interactions/gestures/smiles between Dorian and Basil. I am not suggesting that Dorian and Basil's characters were created gays but that their actions towards each other were presumed normal and I suspect that it was indeed normal for the author Oscar Wilde. It quite tickled me though because I have read in Martin Fido's Crime book, a compilation of crime news, that Wilde had been sued for sodomy. It tells me that Wilde's normal relationship of Basil and Dorian's reflects his sodomite subconscious especially when these two male characters made love.
Now to the gist of the film...I know we're ought to learn there that the love for pleasure or hedomic lifestyle is wrong, that it would get us into trouble. But you see, in fact, Dorian's hedonic life was fine. When did he get into trouble? When he committed himself to Sybil Vane. His casual affairs with women haha of all ages was okay. His mistake was when he went steady, got himself engaged with one woman, Vane. I am not talking philosophically here, but for real. Because of his fiancée Sybil who cannot accept their differences and so took her life away, her brother Jim Vane was on to taking Dorian's life away! He want away for some time and came back and fell in love with Lord Henry's daughter. Now because of his un-hedonic falling in love to someone's daughter, made the father on to murdering him also. So when did he get into trouble? LOL
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