-"What was she like?"-"She was perfect."
desire to be and desire to be with
"Everyone's youth probably hates oneself, right"
"Native American David Bowie"
What is your iceberg?
What's Up-4 Non Blondes: The first time I heard it in Sense8 was the day Nomi was almost pulled to the anterior lobe of his brain. After that every time I heard a rainbow in my heart. It seems to be very suitable here, especially the sentence of institution
"Nobody's beating us or anything, but teaching you to hate yourself, how's that not emotional abuse?"
The combination of LGBTQ and coming of age redefines what is growth and what is rebellion, there's no better combination any other way
In the context of the so-called gay conversion camp, "community" also has a few more meanings.
The 1990s was a very delicate period for the queer community: there was a certain recognition, a certain vocabulary, and a certain history, but one side was still very stigmatized. Even if the film is placed in the classic "past struggles VS looking forward" debate in queer cinema, it still stands the test and does not easily fall to which side: neither victimize the children nor villainize authority—which if they had done, would weaken the sense of omnipresent ideological pressure by embodying it in and thus reducing it to villanized caricature authority figures like Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Richard Vernon in the Breakfast Club.
The three main protagonists have always been very calm about their identity. What really struggles with is not so much gender identity or sexuality, as it is a kind of mentality against society, against Christianity, against INSTITUTIONS, "how do people like us and Get along with each other, with family, with society, and with God". Even the interaction with the two teachers has never escalated to a red-faced quarrel, or a symbolic "teenage nihilism/snarling to the world". dramatic but genuine. Beautiful soundtrack. The end of love. [Be sure to interpret it. It can also be said that this lens has some kind of "moving forward but looking backward" symbolism for queer history.
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