I really do not want to waste too many words with this awful film that has been marketed as lesbian interest when definitively is not at all and I have to agree with someone that commented that “just because an actress has played lesbian characters” does not mean that everything else she plays is “lesbian”. The person is referring to Michelle Clunie from the TV series Queer as Folk that plays one of the two female leads.But worst is that here! Films (a well-known LGTB film company) releases a misleading movie poster and in the earlier synopsis included that Clunie character is a lesbian mother struggling to give her son an education that she never had, so her last job –she gets fired- is as a bouncer in a strip joint (??!!).
If you forget about all the lesbian interest stuff, then you have a below B-movie that is not worth even for TV as is terribly acted, special effects are really primitive/awful, and perhaps the only so-so thing is the story that probably those that like sci-fi movies could have liked if the production values were not so poor as in this movie, even when surely had a very low budget.
If you skip this movie you will not be missing a thing.
Perhaps the poster is not misleading at all. It LOOKS like a cheap B-movie. She IS a lesbian in the movie. She IS the heroine of the movie. And she IS an everyday mom (who happens to be doing a guy kinda job - sorta like a LESBIAN).
ReplyDeleteThat said, there is no SEX in the movie, which would mean you think all lesbian movies have to be about lesbian sex.
You're probably right. If a company is going to sell a movie as a gay or lesbian movie, it should be about gay or lesbian sex, not because the characters are gay or lesbian.
So this is more of a lesbian-friendly movie.
Maybe people should just make good movies.
(sigh)
As far as I remember in the movie nothing is said about her being lesbian and if you read the synopsis available now you will notice that the character is no longer described as lesbian, when before it was. Strange. Think that the poster definitively says B-movie but what I believe is misleading is when says "Everyday Gay Heroes".
ReplyDeleteI particularly do not believe that all lesbian interest movies have to have sex to get the label. I believe that in this movie by only allowing both female characters to be closer, perhaps sharing suggestive something and/or a hug or kiss, could have made the plot of lesbian interest.
Still the movie would have been awful and definitively agree with you that "people should just make good movies"... ;)