Me Without You is a long, suffocating boring excuse to showcase the fashions of the 1970s and 80s.
I'm still giving it a six because I remember I liked this back when I was in my late teens or something. It has "I am 14 and this is very deep" vibes that probably appeals largely to people up to the age of 25 or so. In fact, even back then, when I was 19 or 20 part of the charm was surely that the retro fashions reminded me of my early childhood.
Two women who are obviously biromantic obsessed with each other still manage to suffer a completely sexless relationship from 1973 until 1989. The fact that the quiet, soulful one blames her troubled but charismatic friend for her inability to bed the older brother is lame at best, truly internalized misogyny at worst. What a moral to have to the story. Yikes.
Maybe watching this 20+ years later is "a more enlightened time" but it's comical to me that people think it's unrealistic that Marina and Holly would stay so intensely close....yes, when people are biromantic or bisexual they have inexplicably intense relationships that cannot be explained away by heteronormativity. I actually knew this when I was 20, I knew it was a friendship movie with obvious lesbian undertones. If you believe it was just Marina's fault that Holly and Nat didn't get together, I have a bridge I want to sell you! In real life, it's Nat's fault. He didn't really want to be with Holly and Holly loved Marina more than she loved him, the brother thing is almost inserted at the end as a childish fantasy. Thus the title "me without you"...apparently the writer/director made this flick based a real life friendship. Clearly, even years later, she STILL wasn't over it.
I'm still giving it a six because I remember I liked this back when I was in my late teens or something. It has "I am 14 and this is very deep" vibes that probably appeals largely to people up to the age of 25 or so. In fact, even back then, when I was 19 or 20 part of the charm was surely that the retro fashions reminded me of my early childhood.
Two women who are obviously biromantic obsessed with each other still manage to suffer a completely sexless relationship from 1973 until 1989. The fact that the quiet, soulful one blames her troubled but charismatic friend for her inability to bed the older brother is lame at best, truly internalized misogyny at worst. What a moral to have to the story. Yikes.
Maybe watching this 20+ years later is "a more enlightened time" but it's comical to me that people think it's unrealistic that Marina and Holly would stay so intensely close....yes, when people are biromantic or bisexual they have inexplicably intense relationships that cannot be explained away by heteronormativity. I actually knew this when I was 20, I knew it was a friendship movie with obvious lesbian undertones. If you believe it was just Marina's fault that Holly and Nat didn't get together, I have a bridge I want to sell you! In real life, it's Nat's fault. He didn't really want to be with Holly and Holly loved Marina more than she loved him, the brother thing is almost inserted at the end as a childish fantasy. Thus the title "me without you"...apparently the writer/director made this flick based a real life friendship. Clearly, even years later, she STILL wasn't over it.