[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Kobi

This was a very good, sweet, sad, funny movie.

Im not sure if Dukakis was playing a "butch" or a down east flannel dyke from Maine.

I didn't care for the granddaughter being portrayed as the underhanded antagonist trying to put her grandmother in a home, while her husband and the male hitch hiker were made out to be understanding and enabling.

Sexism and misogyny, even in a queer movie, is still sexism and misogyny.

I watched this again today.

I noticed some oddities in this movie. It is a mainstream movie so it has to appeal to a wider audience. What better way to accomplish this then by adding scenes like:

~ the male hitch hiker with a bare chest thru most of the movie
~ the male hitcher naked in the rain
~ Olympia Dukakis having a discussion about vaginas with a middle aged male stranger who picked her up when she was hitch hiking
~ the blind dyke accidently getting into bed with the hitch hikers naked father who then chases them around the yard in his birthday suit

It struck me as very sexist and misogynistic while keeping the vision of the patriarchy alive and well and naked clearly in mind and view.