Barbara Knight

This felt more like Kristen Stewart and Dan Levy's movie. Their relationship seems to be the cornerstone here. We don't know much about Harper, other than she's a real jerk, which we are led to believe is different than her usual behaviour. I loved the exploration of how toxic being closeted is for you and makes you not your true self. I loved how entirely super lesbian it is, obviously. I loved that we can have a romance movie that isn't just a thin white woman and a thin white guy. Buuut it's a movie starring a thin white guy and a thin white woman. And lots of other thin white people. A couple of whom are gay. The token Black and brown people are such a disappointment. The Black man's biggest scene involved sexual infidelity. The Black kids steal. That's some really ugly narrative going on there. For all that this movie, especially Levy's character, calls out discrimination against gay and lesbian people (trans people don't exist in this world) it really falls down on representation. I didn't want another vapid thin white people movie. It has a lot of depth, which makes the glaring faults so much more disappointing.