Movie: Show Me Love / Fucking Åmål

[Svanhild]

Just recently I've been asked to explain the reason behind the videoclip in my signature again. By opening this thread, I hope to give a permanent answer to it which is: Watch the movie yourself. Let me put it like this: It's one of my favorite movies because it illustrates an emotional situation I had to bear with almost one to one a few years ago. I found myself trapped in a very similar situation and the only solution was to accept the matter of fact of my double tracked sexuality. My attempts to block it out lead to unease and sorrows.

It's a Swedish film and if you expect a jokey and comical stereotypical teenage movie like American Pie you'll be bitterly disappointed. The movie has a realistic objective and doesn't seek impression by short peaks of gags.

Swedish language with English subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkhZwZ0c8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmvy8zexhUc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2byN5Pduc18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZa3y4fmyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkK43wedF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Tnk9ZOHf4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9UhUuvSqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Aa7OGZPyk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPC-wcgVvDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHUeg8CTp08

[Brännvin]

Ridiculous film, where the goal is to insult the provincial values of a small Swedish town to celebrate homosexuality. :sick2:

[Svanhild]

Ridiculous film, where the goal is to insult the provincial values of a small Swedish town to celebrate homosexuality. :sick2:
That's not the meaning of the film as I see it. For instance, Elin is depicted as ridiculous when she reads the girlie magazine and repeat the In&Outs mentioned there in parrot-fashion ("Let's go to a rave!" "Read your magazine. It's no trend anymore!" "What? Damn!" ). Hence she's depicted as a victim of the superficial spirit of the time, nourished by trendsetters in the media and by metropolitan lifestyle. Elin is a disorientated and spoiled teen and treats her enviroment like trash. Only when she punked Agnes her hidden feelings of remorse arise.

I can't see how the movie celebrates homosexuality when Elin is, if anything, bisexual and Agnes is a shy and withdrawn outsider who never coquets with her sexuality. The movie is a plea for more sexual tolerance but in no event a promotional film for expressive, bothersome and pushy bull dykes, other supporters of Christopher Street Days or similar questionable events. In point of fact, the movie shows that there's a wide difference between rather normal people and these politically-orientated poster homosexuals who wave rainbow flags all the day and annoy the public on purpose. The youth has various problems and such a crisis can be a part of them. It has been a part of my youth, at least.