i think this movie was genuinely ahead of its time. i remember watching it with my dad when i was little. jim carrey pulling the moon closer to impress jennifer aniston (his gf in the film) stuck with me for some reason. rewatching as an adult was quite surreal experience! jim carrey is a mad genius, what with his weird bodily contortions and bizarre humor. i kept on busting out laughing
what i didn’t expect was how head-on this film…
this is an excellent film, and 2000s nostalgia is absolutely appropriate now, more than ever. i want to go back in time to my women & gender studies era and write about how this film is actually what it is to be bisexual. viola being like [paraphrased] “he’s still in here” (about her sebastian persona still being a part of her) after duke says he wouldn’t have been able to open up to viola if he knew she was viola the…
simone ashley is so beautiful and is clearly a nuanced actor. she brings something new to every character she plays; we saw her do so in sex education, bridgerton and now, this movie
movie itself was kind of mid, but i did appreciate / relate to the main character. i thought her gay best friend was the best character, and her love interest was handsome
i wanted to watch a head empty no thoughts movie and this absolutely fit the bill
HATED tashi the whole time. but i suppose who else was she ever going to be other than a tennis fanatic when she was literally bred for sport (figuratively and in actuality). and i know that all of these characters are bad people, but i really liked patrick. he was always the most real, both about who he was, but also what his intentions were. and he was always the only one who truly understood tashi
but i mainly cared about…
