Pearl Vonney

This was a sad and tragic yet incredibly soul altering good movie. It took emotions/life experiences that youth can relate to today and portrayed them accurately in the 60's. People were complaining that it was the same old run of the mill anti LGBTQ+ community characters and a movie that ultimately didn't even portray a happy ending for the one LGBTQ+ character. While that is semi the case, the point of the movie was to never give said character a happy ending. Like to be totally real here the character Iris was the one they portrayed in the beginning as the main protagonist. Perhaps that is wrong and it was Maggie who was intended as the main protagonist, but regardless they both had good representation in their different home lives, personalities, and problems. The movies overall point was to have a realistic, but some what positive showing of how a person you hardly even know can walk into your life, change it for the good or bad, and then instantly leave almost as soon as they had come. It also shows how you could barely know someone and become really close with them. Sure Maggie's ending was sad, and sure she was the only LGBTQ+ character, but she did what she did to herself as a result of how her father/ family and community treated her for it. She did the only thing she thought she could, and her treatment was objectively accurate for the timeline and area she lives in. All in all though, the movie is a beautiful and heartfelt representation of how people affect people, for better and for worse.

This movie is amazingly beautiful. Brittany Snow having the courage to show her raw truth and story to better help others through this film gives me so much hope for my generation and the generations to come. I saw a review complaining that they cast an average size pretty girl in a roll she should not have, but I strongly disagree. This movie helped me realize everyone can have issues with themselves no matter what they really look like. It also tells the brutally honest perspective that being self aware is a good trait until it becomes obsessive and you lose yourself/start lacking care and empathy for others. Courtney Eaton's acting in this film is top tear, she did a really good job.