“I think that the worst thing you could want is people to leave the theater is to talk about where they’re going for dinner,” she said. If Hittman seemed resistant to fully weigh in on these questions at Sundance-and perhaps a little bit with me, eight months later-she says she actually welcomes the discussion. All films that I mentioned above are films that I have watched and have happy endings, so you don't have to worry that something will stick in your mind. I think that there’s always room on the spectrum for positive and negatives, and I don’t think that good films fall so neatly in one or the other category.” The first film is sweet and tender, but the second one offers both those things AND a scene. lost souls in that drug infested era, there was no happy ending for her.
“That the impact of hiding who you are, and internalized homophobia, does have consequences, so we can’t deny that simultaneously. If you haven't, you should read why Paddington 2 's Oscar snubs are a total travesty. If people think they know Gia from watching the movie they have no clue what. “I was aware of the stigma around negative representations and that being one of the issues, but I was also, as you know, thinking about how repression can create violence, and that’s true also,” Hittman said. To that end, I wondered about the movie’s ending-if it was evidence of a blind spot to decades of same-sex lust curdling into violence on screen.