“I just got Aquamarine on dvd. It’s about this girl who’s like, half-sushi. I guess she has sex through her blowhole or something.”
A movie genuinely so ahead of its time. Toxic doomed yuri at its finest.
It’s honestly sad that this got so many negative reviews by critics when it first released and how it was dismissed for years as just another “sexy female movie for the male gaze" when it was trying to say something much more sadder than that. But i’m glad people are finally giving this cult classic the love it deserved from the start.
The film is such an obvious metaphor for violence and sexual assault and the way trauma really changes a person. Jennifer becoming more cruel, hypersexual, reckless, and so emotionally detached wasn’t supposed to make her a “girlboss that hates men” but it was supposed to show the fear, trauma, and pain after experiencing that hence why she became a "monster". Trauma can turn someone into a version of themselves they barely recognize. People carry their trauma around like something living inside them like in the film where Jennifer is supposedly being possessed by a demon. Jennifer hurts other people because she’s hurt, because she’s trying to regain some sense of control over what happened to her, even if it destroys her in the process.
And honestly, the saddest part is that Needy was probably the only person Jennifer genuinely loved (even if she tried to kil her). Jennifer didn't die when she got stabbed by Needy with a box Cutter, it was when they were floating in the air and Needy ripped off Jennifer's BFF necklace. 💔 They should've just got together and kissed again.
The scene where Jennifer said
I go both ways.
I genuinely felt seen for a second there because like me too. Bisexual Cinema has never felt more alive after that. The tension between Jennifer and Needy was more emotionally romantic than half the actual romance movies I’ve watched. Every interaction between them felt like they were one argument away from kissing or killing each other. Sometimes both.🤷🏻♂️
Jennifer, the bi icon that you are. Absolute cinema.