![]() I wish that’s what happened in real life. Max starts singing the “U-G-L-Y” song about a woman in a booth next to them and this is so problematic that the screen fades to black with no explanation. Then they start ranking people around them based on attractiveness, which feels rude. Now we’re at the coffee shop with Kia and Max and they’re talking about “sex as in fucking” not sex as in “having slept with.” Wow, these women love keeping it real when it comes to intercourse. ![]() Into the receiver like, “Hello mom yes I hear you and will remember to do that thing as your daughter who knows what’s at stake here.” When Evy gets on the line she begins talking into the phone without remembering to pause for the “person on the other line” and is hilariously trying to driving the story without a single regard for everyday rhythms in conversation. We’re back at Kia and Max’s place and Kia reminds her girlfriend, Evy, to call her mom. Suddenly there’s a shot of a woman in a kitchen drinking hot tea out of glass without a handle, so you know something’s off. The narration plays over a scene of Max writing. We know she’s a writer because it’s all in the syntax. Oh, look, it’s the lady from The L Word who always wore a white blouse tucked into some boot cut pants and who is the writer of this movie, Guinevere Turner! Her character’s name is Max and Max wears a backwards hat. Also, before I go any further I do feel it’s important for you to know that this movie sounds like it was recorded from across the room in an airplane hanger. ![]() Not only is this movie in black and white, but it’s got the kokopelli meets Keith Haring transitional graphics to usher this thing into peak 90s cafe culture. “Why are we making this list?” someone asks on screen and it cues a jackpot chime rollout in my brain. One woman boldly proclaims Eve, a fictional character from the bible, is a lesbian, and even for the most veteran of “everyone is gay” that’s a reach. Someone suggests the entire cast of Roseanne, and in many ways John Goodman is a lesbian. ![]() Our movie begins with a group sitting around talking about lesbians that have existed throughout history, which almost 30 years later is still how a lot of our conversations start. Ride or die ones.Īnd so it is with a heavy heart that I say that this might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Written by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche – names I won’t soon forget – this movie was really the first film made by, for, and starring modern queer women, so I’d imagine there are many of you that have those same strong feelings you had about the last film about this film. Go Fish is the 1994 film about a group of lady loving ladies just trying to get by in a heteronormative patriarchal society. It was important I move on to another lesbian classic. The truth, though, was that the movie was bad. This was a movie that came out (nice) at a time when queer media wasn’t as accessible as it is now, and seeing a story that looked like theirs at a time when they needed it most be taken to task was hurtful. Last time I watched a lesbian classic for the first time I expressed that I would from then on be a broken person for having watched it.
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