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Reviews
Dramarama (2020)
Refreshing, nostalgic, familiar
I can't say I relate to everything in this film. There's many experiences in Dramarama that fully resonate with me, others that I'm unfamiliar with.
And yet everything about this film feels refreshing and familiar. To me, Dramarama perfectly executed the atmosphere of a highschool friend group of this type, to the point where I, as the viewer, felt part of it, included in this peculiar friendgroup.
There's this constant sense of familiarity, like I've been there, done that, like somewhere, somehow, I've known these five kids for a while.
The acting isn't great all around, and neither is the execution; but this genuinely feels like a passion project, an almost home-made experience, and a love letter to a specific kind of childhood. Well, and also a love letter to nerdy, gay theater kids.
There's something simply so refreshing in the simplicity of this movie. The lack of dramatic movie, the lack of a true climax, that makes it so different from most movies we get nowadays that it feels special in every way.
Is it too early to call this a classic? Because to me, it efinitely has the potential to be one.
In either case, I can't say Dramarama is truly a perfect film; perhaps not even worth the 9/10 I gave it, at least not from an objective point of view. Yet this resonated with me so deeply, that a 9 was the minimum I could give.
Alex Strangelove (2018)
A gay classic
An inspiring tale about coming of age and coming out.
This entire movie is filled with a disgusting amount of cringey and awkward scenes, accompanied by mostly mediocre acting which really puts Tall Girl to shame. Most of the characters are either unrealistic or just exaggerated in ways that make it hard for an actual gay teen to relate to.
This could have been a semi-decent story about a bisexual guy in a relationship with a girl (those exist! But let's not touch that subject yet, Netflix), or even breaking up to explore his sexual orientation fully.
Instead we get a classic gay coming out which completely erases such a possibility, and leaves the movie's biphobic undertones lingering around.
The movie suddenly turns into a Disney princess film during the end when every issue is miraculously solved thanks to a frog and a girl with way too much patience.
I cannot find a single positive characteristic about this movie other than maybe some slightly entertaining visual effects and the half-decent soundtrack.
What else is there to say?
Gay represenation isn't enough to make this movie interesting or worth it. There's not enough movies like this (that is, with gay rep), but it doesn't pull it off anyway and it doesn't represent the LGBTQ community correctly.
Considering cancelling my Netflix subscription after this traumatic experience.