★ 5 / 10
I usually LOVE girl/girl movies ... Ultimately heartbreaking.
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Full disclosure, I'm a 27-year-old straight female with an (almost) perfect boyfriend. But, for some reason, I am absolutely obsessed with burgeoning lesbian…
Full disclosure, I'm a 27-year-old straight female with an (almost) perfect boyfriend. But, for some reason, I am absolutely obsessed with burgeoning lesbian or girl/girl movies, where a girl or woman, or each of the women, or together as a couple, are trying to make their way thru life and find themselves. The passion that these women display, even without the actual act, is incredible. So I basically cherish any insight into these female relationships and I can binge watch these movies for days. The women have to be attractive and feminine ... as soon as a truck driver, man'ish, baseball hat wearing lady shows up, I'm out.
That said, this movie had a lot of the right elements, two attractive leads, decent acting, and a decent story (even tho that was probably its weakest point), so I buried myself into the couch to enjoy it.
Long story short, without going into all of the details of the film, I'll just highlight two points, one of them being a spoiler, hence the alert.
First, I couldn't stand the brothers. Either the writing was bad or dumb old me just missed the point but it seems like, even tho they were on their home turf and a visitor must respect that, Ada, the protagonist, didn't do anything wrong and she more then bent over backwards to accommodate them.
Secondly, for probably the same reason as above, In my view Ada didn't do anything wrong toward her girlfriend, Marissa, either and yet Ada kept compromising and making amends and apologizing for things even when she (in my opinion) hadn't done anything wrong. Ultimately, Marissa came off as narcissistic and unbending and kinda horrible.
The reason why this movie makes me sooo sad was because, in that aspect, it's a lot like real life. Ada loved the uncaring Marissa so much that the film leaves it like Ada is willing to be treated like a doormat for the rest of her life. That is just too sad for me to imagine. And I think this fully applies to all relationships, boy & girl or lesbian ones. You can't give up your own identity just to please someone else so in the end, this movie broke my heart even tho some people might not see it that way.
Thanks for reading my rant.
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★ 8 / 10
Charming and awkward
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This is an indie film in the best and worst ways. On the one hand, it refuses to explain anything--you'll either connect with it or you won't. On the other…
This is an indie film in the best and worst ways. On the one hand, it refuses to explain anything--you'll either connect with it or you won't. On the other hand, there's something refreshing about its choice to sit with the characters (particularly the protagonist Ada, played with awkward brilliance by Nicole Velasko Lockhard).
Are there stakes? Sort of. Ada and her girlfriend Marissa (Meredith Johnston) are staying with Marissa's family over the Easter holiday. The three brothers and Marissa have clearly had a difficult upbringing, and there's an interesting tension that develops as Ada tries desperately to fit in while Marissa seems to resent her for it. Ada, meanwhile, clearly has her own way of dealing with the world--mostly through collecting bugs and being by herself. What results is an intimate exploration of loneliness and communication, and there's something there even if I'm still not sure what it is. Maybe just life.
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