Cheating.

This entire post contains massive spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Some discussion here concerns the fast pace of the characters falling for each other. To me this seemed largely necessary in order to portrait the main theme; Cheating.
It would be very difficult showing the characters feelings on this topic if it had the incredibly slow (but enjoyable) pacing of other lesbian movies like Imagine me and you, and to a lesser degree I can't even think straight (A movie much about racial diversity and coming out in a middle eastern family, and less about cheating). I can't assume that I'm doing all lesbian movies justice though I have seem many but to me the amount of quality lesbian films are just way too few to say that any topic is tired out and cliché.

I was perhaps as surprised as any to see the kiss in the forest come only 28 minutes into a hundred minute movie, but at the same time, it felt like a relief not to see this over dramatic denial of attraction and hour long pretense that we often see in movies. Where religion and tradition often take such a center stage when in my geographical area this kind of "resistance" from the father(/family) is much more common.

I am no fan of cheating but at the same time it is a fact we as humans have to deal with. Frida's prior experiences are essential to this movie, as well as the fact that her GF remained hidden through most of it. It "proves" in a way that even those who have been hurt personally by cheating are never above doing it themselves. It is that kind of bone-cutting human documentary Swedish film making truly excel at.

I am not saying that everyone will cheat but in the end love and the kind of attraction that comes from supressed homosexuality will usually win out.