Originally posted by Lindsay B.
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I actually think of it as a reversal, like most everything else in this film. Just as people who oppose LGBT rights in the real world do so on religious grounds, so too do those who oppose heterosexual rights in this alternate world. Their religious texts are simply the opposite of ours, at least in this one regard.
If it actually matters for me to say this, I happen to be a devoted Catholic myself, and if I felt that this film was disrespectful to my faith, I would never have shared it.
No, you have to make assumptions, because you didn't watch the film and didn't seem to know what it was about. So you basically had to guess.
Your assumption was that the film took the real world and simply reversed all of the existing population's sexual orientations. Meaning that a person in real life who is part of the straight majority would become part of the gay majority in this alternate world.
The alternate reality of this film is a fictional world, populated by fictional people.
They are not, and were never presented to be, counterparts to actual people in the real world. For example, the protagonist of the film, Ashley Curtis, is a fictional character. Her experiences are based on real-life stories, but there's no actual "real" Ashley Curtis.
It asks straight people to imagine themselves as themselves, as straight people, and in the persecuted minority, in this alternate world.
any more than the idea that this society wouldn't be biologically viable was anything more than a minor side issue.
And how exactly would you know that the ideas are superficial and false?
all the while totally ignoring the substance of the film.
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