Women on Movie – HER

By Sarah Leeves


Why don’t we play a game… No it’s not that brand of video game, please put your leading straight back on. Its a mix between ‘Simon says’ and ‘follow the first choice’; fundamentally, as a lesbian, you ought to be interested in everything that has actually a hint Sapphic undertones and casual stereotypes. So, for instance, if Ellen purchases a fresh linen match, then you definitely perform as well. If Tegan and Sara declare an undying fascination with roast squirrel, after that off you take with the woods for a barbeque. If Jodie Foster decides that the woman bob is just too very long, then chances are you also are dropping your own luscious locks babe.  Wait, come back! Why don’t you explore me personally?

okay, perhaps we took my personal video game a little too far. Let us play it a new method; if a movie happens that has a snippet of girl-on-girl ‘action, then you’ve to watch it. As you’re a lesbian. And lesbians like girls kissing. No matter if it really is for a moment.

“No!” we hear you weep, “It’s not real! I merely saw Black Swan for its serious cinematography and great music score!” Oh kindly, you sat through two hours of persuasive drama merely to see Mila’s head in Portman’s snatch. Fact. Really don’t blame you however, its a posture i’dn’t be averse to finding myself in. However the point would it be’s hard proper to possess a believable, vital viewpoint of a film, as soon as ‘the lesbians’ have occupied it, without the objectives being interrogate. Eg, I viewed The Hours last week and fell in love with the three-tiered story, the figures and music. The kisses happened to be of no consequence to my personal enjoyment. I then informed my friend, whom said “that is the movie where they all hug is not it? All all of them women.” You can see? The moment the lesbians occupy, there’s really no heading back.

okay, let’s pick a unique example; a movie that truly identifies alone as lesbian cinema. Let us make Guest House… this film had gotten myself banned from ever before taking a movie to ‘DVD evening’ once more. For anybody withn’t observed it, we have found a short synopsis (today, at this time it time i might generally place ‘SPOILER ALERT’ but there is absolutely nothing to ‘spoil’ relating to this movie; it spoiled alone); Girl a-stays inside the guest residence belonging to the daddy of woman B. Both ladies fall for both. Obtained shameful intercourse. Woman B’s father walks in and captures all of them. Ends up Girl the has slept with lady B’s daddy. The end. Oh wait, they performed visit the reasonable, but they failed to win any great awards therefore it does not really matter.

The truth from the issue usually most lesbian flicks, like the majority of main-stream films, just are not that great. Today, it is possible to call me a heathen and threaten to bludgeon myself with a pair of Crocs, but deep down you are aware its correct. How many times perhaps you have sat through an article of this market and also liked your self? Many of these films are the cinematic equivalent of a tequila hangover; advisable the evening before, but causing you to be with feelings of nausea, regret in addition to unwanted information that you’ll try it again. Definitely, discover exceptions; Hannah totally free, Stud Life and Loving Annabelle all are examples of how lesbian cinema may is indeed correct (issued, they are not all ‘happily ever before after’ however you can’t have everything).

Females, tune in; a girly hug does not the lesbian movie make. We would like flicks that interest our very own sensibilities, maybe not temporary gratifications. Do not feel required to look at any film simply because there is a ‘Sapphic 2nd’. Make your own selections. Help make your very own decisions. Make your own cinema… just don’t go to the Guest residence.

About Sarah: Sarah enjoys coaching trampolining and drinking well-made mojitos… not together. She produces columns for DIVA, evaluations on her regional report and postcards for friends.