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Movie for questioning teens

posted 7 years ago by veictor
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It's nice that it's a movie for real questioning people, but the end was a bit disappointing. For people that took a good amount of time to see themselves as gay, lesbian or bi/pansexual, it's kind of weird that they don't find themselves in any way, maybe in real life that's okay, but in a movie it's a little flat not having that kind of development in a coming out/coming of age film, it was like not saying anything rather than making a statement. I don't remember watching a movie that opens so much ground to the subject, and then just leaves at that. Take some of Gregg Araki's movies, despite the fact a lot of the characters are queer and open, the situations and the stories leave an impression that they're actually bi/pansexual, or even gay.

[–] nevillelongbottom-00709 7 years ago

I just watched an interview with the director and he said that they didn't define Neil by the end of the movie so that people who are still in the process of questioning would have a character that they can relate to. Because as soon as you say that he's bi/gay/pan/queer or whatever you take the movie away from someone who could have previously identified with it. I think what they were going for was showing that it's okay to still be questioning and you don't need to have everything figured out when you're 15 years old. I agree that it would have been nice to have a little bit more closure but I understand what they were going for.