There has been a lot time wasted over the years discussing hidden meanings under the glossy vacuous skin of 1986’s Top Gun. That it’s a primer for acing the Scientology entrance exams and getting in at ‘level four alien simp’. That if you write the film’s title backwards it’s called ‘Nug Pot’ and if you turn the volume down and listen instead to soundtrack from ‘Cheech & Chong Go Up In Smoke’, it actually makes a lot more sense. That it’s really all about Maverick’s struggle with his repressed homosexuality.