Jenny's Wedding

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The movie is good, well written and really accurate compared to what happen in real life from my experience of parents finding out one of their kids is gay (the "please keep lying", the "what did we do wrong??", ...). So for me the movie has a huge potential and all of it is erased by the choice of actresses to be the gay couple : Heigl and Bledel. These two actresses are good but I didn't believe for once second in their couple. Heigl is a mature looking woman and Bledel looks...way younger! Both are beautiful and talented but as the couple....I didn't buy it and it bothered me during all the movie so at the end I'm disappointed and sad to feel that way.

This film belongs in 2005, this is not how gay films/ people are written anymore. I believe this movie was made by a bunch of straight people who think they know how LGBTQIA+ people work but really don't and the people who will really enjoy this movie are just people who want to feel good about themselves because they posted a rainbow on facebook when gay marriage was legalized because "I support gay people". Now that's not a bad thing to feel good about there is still a lot of people who think gay people should be stoned to death but this movie is only enjoyable to a small audience when it doesn't need to be. I'm going to compare it to another movie at this point, Imagine Me & You (2005), I LOVE this film it is very satisfying to see those 2 get together at the end and the build up that leads up. That is from the lesbian perspective, but the movie is also very enjoyable for most of the people around in 2005, accepting but still a little uncomfortable because it wasn't too much. It is a movie gay people and straight people can enjoy alike. Jenny's Wedding seems to have no idea what gay people would like to see in their movies using songs like She Keeps Me Warm, like yeah that song is about lesbians put that in. It really seems to distant itself from what it should be. Another movie I will quickly compare it too is Carol. That was an AMAZING movie and what the top of gay movies is for this time in my opinion, I don't expect Jenny's Wedding to be the same as this movie which is getting noms from many different awards but I expect it to be modern. If you had shown me Jenny's Wedding and asked me what year it came out I would say 2004. But it didn't it came out 2015. There's a gap, there's a learning curve that hasn't gotten to Jenny's Wedding yet. Jenny's Wedding is how not to write a gay film. That is my main problem with this movie.

I suppose this really was about a woman called Jenny being wedded, even so, it lacked so much drama, it was a boring exercise. The lack of an angle on her wife to be feels totally unbalanced. The only thing we know about her is that her mother lives in Portland. We don't know about her job, her father, her background ... NOTHING! After all, it's about JENNY'S wedding, not about ... I forgot her name already, and I think it's the filmmakers intention that I don't look that up. The only tension in this movie comes from waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever does. I guess it was the filmmakers intention to show lesbians as normal as possible, but does that HAVE TO mean as boring as hell? On a side note: Why are all lesbian roles played by heteronormative actresses, often married with chilluns??? And if it HAS to be those, how about a little skin? After all, we lesbians like to dream about unattainable stars as much as anyone. It was all too movie-of-the-week, Lifetime crappy for my taste. Oh well. On hindsight, this isn't about lesbians at all. It's about conservatives coming to the shocking discovery that .....drumroll .... their own kids are MORE important than what the neighbors think, or their own nauseating prejudices. I mean, half or more of conservatives actually abandon their utterly vulnerable kids when they come out, and that is so un-Christian, it is Satanic. The Melancholic Alcoholic.