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Quite offensively homophobic

posted 13 years ago by DeclanCochran
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I watched this stinker of a film earlier today, and despite it not being particularly scary/violent/good, I noticed one thing that has been hard to shake, which is that actually this is one of the most homophobic films I think I've ever seen. The singular motivation behind this girl's killings is that she's in love with her female best friend and can't bring herself to say it, so she imagines herself as a serial killer to accept it. Or something. Truth be told the plot, to me, was dross. But this homophobic undercurrent stood out to me. To make it her only motivation is not only lazy... But pretty intolerable.

[–] TheJesusAndMaryChain 11 years ago

I could not agree more. Not only did it not make a lot of sense, it was incredibly offensive and a cheap gimmick to cover up that this film was plagiarized. The filmmaker plagiarized 90% of the film from Dean Koontz' book, Intensity... the only major plot difference is the asinine and offensive ending.

Koontz stated that he doesn't sue because he doesn't want to be associated with such an offensive film but if you read the book, the parallels are blatantly obvious.

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[–] DeclanCochran 11 years ago

That's cute.

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[–] storm25storm25 11 years ago

Seriously? I've seen plenty of films where a woman was scorned by a man and went psycho through love. Swimfan and Fatal Attraction are two just off the top of my head. Because it is somebody from the same sex, you have a problem with it? Seems to me DeclanCochran, the only homophobic on this thread is you!!

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[–] DeclanCochran 11 years ago

Wow. Ahaha, the original post was written two years ago now. Needless to say, I don't really believe that any more. I do think Switchblade Romance is a very bad film, but the twist is lazy as opposed to homophobic, I guess. But no, I'm not a homophobe. Perhaps very dumb, some time ago, but not a homophobe.

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[–] jacksakes 11 years ago

Hey Declan, if you ever read this I just want to say: you're honest. And thank you. Lots of posters fight tooth and nail to save their egos that they refuse to acknowledge the mounting evidence that would contradict their view.

You came on here and admitted that's not something you believe anymore. So I just want to give you a . You got my respect.

[–] jcarpenter-1 11 years ago

Honestly, 5 pages of this moronic thread?

[–] DeclanCochran 11 years ago

I'm surprised myself.

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[–] DeclanCochran 10 years ago

There are a lot of silly billys out there. I am one of them.

[–] eru0527 11 years ago

Are you all crazy? The reason for her psychotic episode is repressed love and repressed sexual desire.

Not her being a lesbian. Maybe her being a lesbian makes the odds higher for her repressing sexual feelings, but man she isn't a killer because she is lesbian.

She is a killer because she has repressed feelings of love, lust and want that she cannot find a way to release.

Her being a lesbian isn't the REASON for her being crazy, I mean you're really reaching if you want this movie to be offensive towards gays.

She could just as well have the same repressed feelings for a brother or father, or priest, or something else that might be considered equally "inappropriate" in her own eyes. Now they chose that the thing that made her repress the feelings was that the recipient of her feelings was a girl. But it could just as well have been some other reason she thought her feelings were "shameful", like the examples I gave (family member, religious/celibate character). Or a child (pedophilia) or whatever else she might've been ashamed of.

But now it was a girl. But it was her repressed feelings that made her do it, not that she was a lesbian or bisexual.

[–] DeclanCochran 11 years ago

I've doubled back. I agree with everything you say. How do I close a thread?

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[–] stitchesaresore 9 years ago

I think deleting is the only way, but that would just remove your original post instead of the entire thread. I'd just leave it be and hope that at least some people seeing this on the first page will read all responses before adding their own reply to put you on blast. That or make an edit to the first post. You're already doing better than most IMDB posters by admitting you have changed your original complaint.

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[–] fluffchop 10 years ago

Interesting interpretation about it being homophobic. What makes you think she's even a Lesbian let alone "in love" with her best friend? I don't get Lesbian or in love with best friend from this movie. You could interpret her watching her friend in the shower as something but she had never been to the farm and didn't go outside to watch her. She wouldn't have even known she could have watched her. Then she comes inside and listens to the song about a girl while masturbating. I don't think that any of that constitutes conclusively one way or another that she is a Lesbian or in love with her best friend. Anyway whatever assuming she's a Lesbian in love with her best friend then how does not telling her make the film homophobic. Her friend might be straight so she never told her. She may fantasise about women's bodies but never act on it in real life.

How about if a guy is in love with a girl who is his best friend. Happens all the time. This loser can't distinguish between her being a good friend, and her being interested in him, but deep down he knows she's not into him. He's a coward because by obsessing about her and never telling her how he feels he doesn't have to approach another woman like a real man and take her to bed. He's a wimp. The thing is said wimps don't run about serial killing people because they can't tell their best friend they love her. They may want to kill themselves but not everyone in her family. It just doesn't make sense.

Therefore I don't agree that she was a Lesbian, or in love with her friend, that she could only deal with it by being a serial killer, or that the film was homophobic.

I think the real sense of homophobia I get is from yourself posting this assertion in the first place. It's cray cray to even think what you do.

[–] DeclanCochran 10 years ago

Well I've since rescinded what I said and no longer think the film is homophobic (just lazy, poorly written and arguably cynical). However, whilst it may be "cray cray" to have asserted in the first place, I don't think that would make me homophobic (which I'm not, by the way). But, hey. It was a dumb point to make, I admit that much.

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[–] jigalini 10 years ago

You sound stupid.

[–] DeclanCochran 10 years ago

I was stupid.

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[–] cfriend37 9 years ago

Okay sjw, what ever comes into your mind. It's amazing you watch movies at all with thinking like this.

[–] DeclanCochran 9 years ago

bahaha aha

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