June 03, 2006

You'll Get Over It (2003)

Tu Verras, Ca Te Passeras
France
Director: Fabrice Cazeneuve
Cast: Julien Baumgartner, Julia Maraval

The two stereotype of straight women in gay movies are one, gay protagonist’s best friend and two, the idiot who falls in love with our hero. When this movie tells a story about an extremely cute gay college boy with lots of hot gay guys interested in him can’t face his own sexuality, OK, just give me a break right now, what's wrong with you? Your life is miserable? You got to be kidding me. When I think it could not get any worse, here comes the idiot girl who gives her virginity to our hero and doesn’t know her boyfriend is gay. At first she (pathetically) does everything trying to bring back his heart, and then she turns herself into a slut who sleeps with all her best friends. This coming-of-age gay movie does not take us anywhere. It reminds me the feminist course I took years ago: discrimination against women is not just from macho straight men, gay men do it too.

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