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Coming out queer in adulthood can include a lot of rejigging of one’s memories. At least it did for me. “Did that friendship mean the same thing to both of us?” “Was that admiration or a crush?” “What was that childhood fascination with Brendan Fraser and Keanu Reeves really about?” I’d be lying if I said I fully internalized the queerness of Jennifer’s Body when I first saw it in early 2010 — on DVD, months after missing it in theatres. It would still be a few years before I embraced or even acknowledged my own bisexuality. But the film spoke to me on a few levels. Core to that was the relationship between its protagonist Needy Lesnicky (Amanda Seyfried) and her best friend Jennifer Check (Megan Fox).
Jennifer’s Body, from screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Karyn Kusama, tells the story of a teen girl who is possessed by a demon after a ritual to make some hipster indie rockers famous goes wrong. We see Jennifer’s transformation into a literal man-eater (or boy-eater to be absolutely precise) from the perspective of her BFF and sometimes-lover Needy, who wants to save not just the boys Jennifer is snacking on but also Jennifer herself.
As has now been very well-documented, the film was a major miss both critically and commercially upon release, later building a cult following over time. vende nike But Jennifer’s Body wasn’t just rejected. Its core themes were ignored, thanks at least in part to an abysmal marketing campaign and dual backlashes against Cody and Fox. Among those core themes was the film’s exploration of queer love. And it wasn’t a neat and tidy exploration of queer love. It didn’t give us purely evil queers, or happy-go-lucky flawless queers. It didn’t tell us what to feel or how to feel it. It didn’t even label Jennifer and Needy as a couple.
Instead, it gave us three-dimensional queer characters — flawed, conflicted, beautiful, passionate, nike air max 90 online hurting, repressed, liberated — and let them exist onscreen as they were, leaving it to us to tease apart what it all meant on our own. |
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