Porno version of this with the numerous times they seemed about to fuck coming to fruition starring me (irl petite redhead) as Julianne, currently holding auditions for the Tilda role in my bedroom so come all ye tall androgynous blondes...
(In all seriousness, I think this movie provides much-needed interrogation into how we view people "battling" illness and the intersections between that and conventional morality--for more on this topic read the excellent Everybody by Olivia Liang)
I rewatch this constantly to escape into a fantasy world where my dream woman Lena Headey utters the words "I'm gay" and where a man's reaction to his wife leaving him for a woman is him saying he just wants her to be happy instead of murdering or assaulting her 🙃 anyway this is the best lesbian movie of all time!
I've reached my breaking point of seeing memes that trivialize the pain and suffering this movie depicts, so I'm going to reprint/update an essay I wrote on POSSESSION and trauma back in 2017 that will have done its job if it makes even one person think twice before posting an asinine edit of Isabelle Adjani writhing in pain to an incongruous pop song. Also noting that I do think this movie has humor and I find parts of it very…
Turns out if a woman has engaged in sex work, no matter how much a filmmaker tries to allegedly humanize them, inevitably he will reduce her to her body and presume that she can only make sense of her emotions through sex. For about two hours and fifteen minutes Sean Baker managed to avoid making the protagonist just an object of pity, even though the amount of sex scenes-- which, by the way, he refused to hire an intimacy coordinator…
