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[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Furthermore, I got kind of Blue is the Warmest Color vibe from the movie. Meaning—it’s nominally a lesbian love story but it really feels like a bloke wanted to make a lesbian porno and get praised as open-minded for it. (Although Ammonite is nowhere near as gross as that travesty.)

Okay not to change the subject but THANK YOU! I have only watched parts of that movie but I have never understood the hype about it, it grossed me out and actually made me doubt my same-sex attraction for a brief time, back when I was deep in denial about it...

The whole movie just feels spoiled by the mischaracterization of a real person and the over-sexualization of lesbians.

I agree. I don't see why we can't make up our own stories about same-sex couples if there are no examples to draw from, and besides I think there ARE other examples without having to totally make up shit about historical figures. And Queer Theory is both homophobic and that director is being dumb. Two wrongs do not make a right, I completely agree!

Thanks for the review, also. I keep seeing people recommend movies with lesbian couples but so many have Queer Theory crap, or other messed-up messages in them. Guess I'll stick to Imagine Me & You... it's got some questionable elements too but at least it's not ahistorical, lol.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right? If your sex scenes are so graphic that you have have a prosthetic vagina over an actresses actual vagina, you are making a porno. All of the sex scenes in Blue is the Warmest Color were pretty much the same as porn aimed at straight guys. I don’t know a single lesbian irl that likes the movie.