There are a few reviews here that to some extent focus on the film being about young girls and homosexuality. When I saw this as a teenager I never really thought of it as a film about lesbians. I just felt that everything it was Real. I related the characters because they were teenagers, with angst, insecurity, the brutality of being young and feeling lost and lonely.
(I felt the same way when I watched "Let the Right One In", the Swedish ORIGINAL, NOT the Hollywood remake "Let Me In". "Let the Right One In" isn't a film about vampires, but a film that happens to have vampires in it. What it comes down to, is that it is a film about children and what it's really like to be a child, feeling misunderstood by a grown up world etc, etc.)
SHOW ME LOVE/F***ING ÅMÅL happens to be a film about two girls who are lesbian, and though it bears on the story, this film truly is made for everyone who's ever been a teenager... Or maybe needs to be reminded how it was to be one.
This is a love story. Not THE love story, but a love story that I think most people can relate to in one way or another. Gender and sexuality doesn't matter.
Some refer to Swedish movies are "low budget" or "TV-films", but what it's really about is that Sweden isn't Hollywood. I'm sure most European movies may feel cheap to some viewers, who are used to a Hollywood format, but the fact is that this is what the film makers have to work that, and they do it really well. I'm not saying we don't need Hollywood, I'm just saying that Hollywood needs more film making like this, especially for teenagers. Teenagers don't need more movies about the Perfect High School Experience, they need something that shows them that their imperfect and confusing world is legitimate, 100% REAL, however heartbreaking and difficult it may be. That is a way to show them love.
I'd like to recommend you to watch other movies by director Lukas Moodysson as well.
(I felt the same way when I watched "Let the Right One In", the Swedish ORIGINAL, NOT the Hollywood remake "Let Me In". "Let the Right One In" isn't a film about vampires, but a film that happens to have vampires in it. What it comes down to, is that it is a film about children and what it's really like to be a child, feeling misunderstood by a grown up world etc, etc.)
SHOW ME LOVE/F***ING ÅMÅL happens to be a film about two girls who are lesbian, and though it bears on the story, this film truly is made for everyone who's ever been a teenager... Or maybe needs to be reminded how it was to be one.
This is a love story. Not THE love story, but a love story that I think most people can relate to in one way or another. Gender and sexuality doesn't matter.
Some refer to Swedish movies are "low budget" or "TV-films", but what it's really about is that Sweden isn't Hollywood. I'm sure most European movies may feel cheap to some viewers, who are used to a Hollywood format, but the fact is that this is what the film makers have to work that, and they do it really well. I'm not saying we don't need Hollywood, I'm just saying that Hollywood needs more film making like this, especially for teenagers. Teenagers don't need more movies about the Perfect High School Experience, they need something that shows them that their imperfect and confusing world is legitimate, 100% REAL, however heartbreaking and difficult it may be. That is a way to show them love.
I'd like to recommend you to watch other movies by director Lukas Moodysson as well.