“Bottoms” is an unruly movie about unruly teenage girls. When the club dissolves into infighting and drama, it’s due to the external misogynistic forces that would rather these girls don’t amass their own organized power. Their desire to fight comes from the comically out-of-control misogyny and oppression they experience at school. The characters mention their assaults, their stalkers, their rapes (including “gray area stuff”) in jokes likely to make men squirm. “Bottoms” is disturbingly, refreshingly, frank in how it addresses the casual, normalized violence to which young women and girls are inured. Their capacity for violence doesn’t stem from a desire to dominate, but to defend – themselves. The concept of a fight club itself pokes fun at David Fincher’s hypermasculine 1999 film, but the club serves the same function for the girls as it did the guys back then, allowing them to unleash their primal bloodlust. There’s only one solution to the lie: start a fight club. As the boyfriend of cheerleader Isabel, Jeff stands in the way of Josie’s crush, and after a light vehicular assault, rumors of PJ and Josie’s violent past spiral out of control. They moon over the ethereal Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and the literal supermodel Brittany (Kaia Gerber, daughter and clone of Cindy Crawford), while struggling to get out from the bottom of the social dog pile at their football-obsessed high school.Īs the entitled, whiny dingbat Jeff, superstar quarterback and crown prince of their school, Nicholas Galitzine swings in the opposite direction of his character in “Red, White & Royal Blue,” tearing into this toxic himbo role. These two losers want what any high school losers do: to get some play. By the time we catch up with the lifelong friends, they are out, and maybe not proud, but at least solid in their sexuality. “Bottoms” is no touching coming out story for PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri). But at the center of it all are not a pair of impossibly shiny babes, but rather, two rumpled lesbians sporting an astounding array of baggy rugby shirts. In “Bottoms,” she and cinematographer Maria Rusche employ the saturated color palette and long, gliding tracking shots that give classic teen movies their slick sheen. In their debut effort “Shiva Baby,” Seligman used a jittery hand-held camera to take us inside the anxiety-ridden subjectivity of a chaotic bisexual (Sennott) stuck at the family function, copping the gritty indie style of a John Cassavetes or Safdie brothers movie for a queer female film. Rather, they co-opt the narrative tropes, aesthetics and iconography of the genre in order to parody the idea of these movies, and to queer the space, piercing a rich vein of untapped female rage that ultimately ends up splattered all over the screen. While “Bottoms,” the sophomore collaboration between director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott, who wrote the film together, exists in the lineage of these teen comedies, Seligman and Sennott aren’t interested in paying blind tribute. Please report any comments that fit this description so we can act accordingly.Meet “Bottoms”: she’s the wild, brutish and unrepentantly doomer Zoomer child of the classic Gen X teen movie “Heathers,” and the nasty niece of the Y2K-era black comedies “Jawbreaker” and “Drop Dead Gorgeous.” She’s the naughty little sis of “Mean Girls,” and the bratty cousin of “Superbad,” the BFF of “But I’m a Cheerleader.” It’s been a long time since a movie has been this delightfully, unapologetically and hilariously mean-spirited in satirizing the heteropatriarchy of high school hegemony. Rude, offensive, judgmental, sexualized, and generally mean comments will be removed and the user risks getting banned at the mods' discretion. If your content gets stuck and you feel it doesn't break any rules, message the mods. Use the report button generously for possible spam and inappropriate content or comments.Īnything that gets stuck in the spam filter will most likely stay there, especially if you post blogposts, product promotions, and youtube videos. Youtube videos are not permitted for now but the community can have a vote if there are enough mod messages requesting them.Īccounts older than 2 days with 25+ karma are allowed to contribute to the community. Self posts, pictures, and links are acceptable, but they should be your own content if possible or useful to the community.
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