I wish there was a way to put a note when you put a film on your watchlist because I would really like to remember what prompted me to put this there.
Straight men aren't allowed to make movies about queer women anymore since they don't know how to do it without adding extended and exploitative porn to the middle. The end.
(I'll probably add a real review eventually and up the star rating slightly but right now I'm still too angry.)
I wonder how I would have felt if I wasn't a fan of the book, if the twists would have been enough to cause me to overlook the problems or…
52 Films By Women - Ultimate Challenge Week 15: North America
I found this, as a whole, a quite endearing, relatable coming of age film. (I wish more media focused at young adults would come out a little more explicitly against male characters taking advantage of their age or position to sleep with younger women, but I’ve seen worse.)
The most interesting part of this experience for me personally though is that I’ve read quite a bit on the “unlikability”…