![]() ![]() The narration plays over a scene of Max writing. We know she’s a writer because it’s all in the syntax. Oh, look, it’s the lady from The L Word who always wore a white blouse tucked into some boot cut pants and who is the writer of this movie, Guinevere Turner! Her character’s name is Max and Max wears a backwards hat. Also, before I go any further I do feel it’s important for you to know that this movie sounds like it was recorded from across the room in an airplane hanger. Not only is this movie in black and white, but it’s got the kokopelli meets Keith Haring transitional graphics to usher this thing into peak 90s cafe culture. “Why are we making this list?” someone asks on screen and it cues a jackpot chime rollout in my brain. One woman boldly proclaims Eve, a fictional character from the bible, is a lesbian, and even for the most veteran of “everyone is gay” that’s a reach. Someone suggests the entire cast of Roseanne, and in many ways John Goodman is a lesbian. Our movie begins with a group sitting around talking about lesbians that have existed throughout history, which almost 30 years later is still how a lot of our conversations start. Ride or die ones.Īnd so it is with a heavy heart that I say that this might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Written by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche – names I won’t soon forget – this movie was really the first film made by, for, and starring modern queer women, so I’d imagine there are many of you that have those same strong feelings you had about the last film about this film. Go Fish is the 1994 film about a group of lady loving ladies just trying to get by in a heteronormative patriarchal society. It was important I move on to another lesbian classic. The truth, though, was that the movie was bad. This was a movie that came out (nice) at a time when queer media wasn’t as accessible as it is now, and seeing a story that looked like theirs at a time when they needed it most be taken to task was hurtful. Last time I watched a lesbian classic for the first time I expressed that I would from then on be a broken person for having watched it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.I loved it, even though it's totally NOT "L word" and girls are not necessarily attractive and worn out in the gym. Max has to give up on the idea of the ideal girlfriend, and explore more tangible options. Ely maybe "U.G.L.Y." but she can make Max happy. Love can be found in the weirdest of places. It would have been a tremendous step towards realizing that even freaks of nature (according to the western society's standards) deserve to be happy and can be loved. I wish I knew it was out there when I was first questioning myself and my identity. The fact that I am only watching this film 15 years after it was made, is a shame. Very refreshing from that point of view! Also the black & white photography maximizes the effort to capture all those sexually ambiguous women. Here we have an obsession with faces, eyes and hands- not boobs. It's unusual, and it focuses on completely different things, than what men usually pay attention to. First of all, we see women though a woman's eye. Rose Troche does a great job in directing this film. ![]()
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