Today I am going to take a look at two of the films that
have been mentioned in class this semester and give a short summary of them as
well as discuss how they relate to gender and sexuality and the topics we
discussed in class.
The
first film I will discuss today is Pariah.
It is an independent American film that deals with a young girl named Alike and
how she is growing up and struggling to come to terms with her sexuality. She is
quietly a lesbian and tries to deal with this. Alike talks to her openly
lesbian best friend Laura to help her cope with her newly discovered sexuality.
During the course of the film her parents find out about her sexuality and
introduce her to a girl named Bina and she and Alike become friends. This film
deals greatly with sexuality and coming to terms with ones sexual preferences.
The
next film I will discuss is the film Cabaret.
This film focuses on an American singer Sally
Bowles who performs at a night club in Berlin and Brian Roberts an Englishman
who is visiting the town. In the beginning
of the film Sally hits on Brian and assumes he is gay when he resists. Sally
and Brian become friends and eventually make love and Brian says that maybe he
was unable to make love before because the other women he had been with were
not the right women. Later Sally and Brian meet and befriend Max von Heune and he invites the two
to his estate for the weekend and makes love to each of them separately. Sally
and Brian get in a fight over this but Max ends up leaving them money. Sally
later finds out she is pregnant and is unsure if it is Brian’s or Max’s child
and even though Brian promises to take care of Sally and the baby Sally ends up
aborting the baby and Brian returns home while Sally stays in Berlin.
-Jason
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