'Strangers', the 'queer' sixth sense and homosexual orphanhood. The protagonists of the film experience a loneliness for which there may be no remedy.
In the criticism received by the film, a little empathy is missing towards those who grew up with a feeling of monstrosity. From Oliver Twist to Jane Eyre, Victorian and then Edwardian literature chose the helpless young man as an emblem and allegory. Some literary theorists have defined the 19th century as “the century of the orphan”