s, this affection is unspoken and unacknowledged, but it is very real.…Friends kiss and hug. They cry for one another. It’s not a love story, but it’s a story about love. Films like The Shawshank Redemption, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Top Gun resonate so strongly because at the molecular level, they are also about love. Not in the romantic sense. In the, “we’re boys and I’ve got your back, whatever may come,” sense. Guys being guys, this affection is unspoken and unacknowledged, but it is very real.⁹