As I watch Take Me for a Ride (2016, Ecuador), I am sadly reminded why I hated watching lesbian movies as a young adult. My distaste for them was mostly because they always ended badly.
I guess that societal norms and mores stemming from the bullshit zeitgeist was always going to govern how same-sex movies would end. After all, allowing a happy ending for behavior that has pretty much always been deemed taboo and forbidden might be too much for the uptight, perhaps misanthropic, naysayers and dream killers of this world.
So, maybe not all real-life homosexual relationships survive for lengthy periods of time. Conversely, not all heterosexual relationships last long either.
My take on the lesbian movies is simple: Let them end with a positive tone. If you're going to make a movie of this nature, let the 'happy ending' be.
Stop depicting lesbian love as some kind of deathbound relation. A lot of the lesbian relationships that am closely familiar with are lengthy, happy ones.
Don't just write the happy relationship endings for 'straight' people; that's just a damn Hollywood ploy to sell romcoms to the highest, gullible bidder. Don't be that buyer.
Dear Hollywood - or whatever movie-making entity that might be reading this, please - let my lesbian community be portrayed in a better light in movies.
Stop portraying us as awkward, skiddish women who are too scared to fight for same-sex love.
In my real lesbian world, true love is fucking worth fighting for. Movie makers of the world, start showing the world that kind of wonderful, glorious, victorious lesbian love. I'll be waiting!
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