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They are replaying this movie on Showtime this month for some reason, and even though I don't think anybody reads this besides a few close friends of mine, I am going to encourage people to watch it. You can rent it if you do't have Showtime.I t will be on the shelves, its like the movie people will not watch. I mean, sure, the Crying Game it ain't. At times it has the feel of a Lifetime movie, if Lifetime would ever touch something so filthy and gay. They would probably consider it beneath them, ignoring the fact that it isn't even really gay. One of the side characters comments once, almost as though its nothing, that sexual orientation is so loose these days anyway. Of course, the woman who says it has a dick, but despite my prejudice against penises it doesn't make the point any less valid.
People should watch this movie because its fucking hot. Fucking Hot! Two sensitive, intelligent people who are very different fall in love and have sex. Now, In America, that's a crime even if its heterosexual and they're married. (Puritannical ridiculous nonsense! Everyone knows that women who have sex are idiots! A clitoris and a brain do not work together...) But more than it being hot, and I will say that again, it is fucking hot (Primal caveman desire, man drawn to woman because that is his urge, regardless of the fact she was a born a man) it is a hauntingly sad story, based on real events surrounding an army private and the consequences his affair had back at his base.
I like this movie for pointing out both the nobility of the army through the eyes of the innocent private, expressing his love and belief in his fellow soldiers, and for showing exactly how full of BULLSHIT the army is for not supporting gay soldiers or transgender soldiers, (or women), or anyone willing to fucking join up and die for their country. And it shows how ridiculous macho bravado is so damn GAY, how the very people saying the worst things feel the worst about themselves. Every hateful thing said in this movie has such history and pain behind it. The villain, if I can call him that, so obviously in love with the hero and has no idea... Not that I feel sorry for him, but it says so much, in that same almost quiet way, about how screwed up our values (and by that I mean "we") are.
This movie is a love story, first and foremost, and that is why it works, in the same way that comedies can point out inequalites better than a straight documentary half the time. People hate being preached to but they will share emotions without questioning it. It is impossible to watch this movie without feeling pain at the outcome and warmth at the start, and I think that is also why people avoid it. I work at a video store where it sits unrented on the shelves. They'll read the back and then walk away.
Why wouldn't they? Transgender is scary. It's undefinable. Dark, unexplored territory. Virgin ass, as Rene would say, a living breathing vagina with teeth, ready to castrate close enough. If women can be like men...if men can be...like...women....my god. Society could unravel. They would have to find news ways to justify eveything. New ways to make us afraid, new ways to make us buy toothpaste, new ways to convince young men to join the army and die for democracy. All that from a man in a dress...better laugh at it. Or better yet, kill it. If that doesn't work, you could always just ignore it. Maybe it will go away.
My my, what a bitter rant has spewed forth. I don't even think it makes sense. Oh well, I shall simply go back to my original statement. Fucking hot. What straight girl doesn't dream of a guy like that anyway?
A handsome, gentle, mannerly straight boy, with a job and a car.
Now that's true love.
Jesus, I am crazy.
People should watch this movie because its fucking hot. Fucking Hot! Two sensitive, intelligent people who are very different fall in love and have sex. Now, In America, that's a crime even if its heterosexual and they're married. (Puritannical ridiculous nonsense! Everyone knows that women who have sex are idiots! A clitoris and a brain do not work together...) But more than it being hot, and I will say that again, it is fucking hot (Primal caveman desire, man drawn to woman because that is his urge, regardless of the fact she was a born a man) it is a hauntingly sad story, based on real events surrounding an army private and the consequences his affair had back at his base.
I like this movie for pointing out both the nobility of the army through the eyes of the innocent private, expressing his love and belief in his fellow soldiers, and for showing exactly how full of BULLSHIT the army is for not supporting gay soldiers or transgender soldiers, (or women), or anyone willing to fucking join up and die for their country. And it shows how ridiculous macho bravado is so damn GAY, how the very people saying the worst things feel the worst about themselves. Every hateful thing said in this movie has such history and pain behind it. The villain, if I can call him that, so obviously in love with the hero and has no idea... Not that I feel sorry for him, but it says so much, in that same almost quiet way, about how screwed up our values (and by that I mean "we") are.
This movie is a love story, first and foremost, and that is why it works, in the same way that comedies can point out inequalites better than a straight documentary half the time. People hate being preached to but they will share emotions without questioning it. It is impossible to watch this movie without feeling pain at the outcome and warmth at the start, and I think that is also why people avoid it. I work at a video store where it sits unrented on the shelves. They'll read the back and then walk away.
Why wouldn't they? Transgender is scary. It's undefinable. Dark, unexplored territory. Virgin ass, as Rene would say, a living breathing vagina with teeth, ready to castrate close enough. If women can be like men...if men can be...like...women....my god. Society could unravel. They would have to find news ways to justify eveything. New ways to make us afraid, new ways to make us buy toothpaste, new ways to convince young men to join the army and die for democracy. All that from a man in a dress...better laugh at it. Or better yet, kill it. If that doesn't work, you could always just ignore it. Maybe it will go away.
My my, what a bitter rant has spewed forth. I don't even think it makes sense. Oh well, I shall simply go back to my original statement. Fucking hot. What straight girl doesn't dream of a guy like that anyway?
A handsome, gentle, mannerly straight boy, with a job and a car.
Now that's true love.
Jesus, I am crazy.
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It's true though. A woman must be either a vagina or a brain - because a vagina with a brain attached is too *way* too confusing and scary.
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Hello, new friend. I'm Jenna.
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hello, Jenna.
A fan. I have heard of these.