Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

This is an unapologetically creative and self-obsessed film. Very much more on the vibe-based side, trying to engage you beyond a conscious level than telling a tight story. Despite that it is cohesive, entertaining, and deeply hilarious.

It has a highly specific theme about how we are often shaped by perverse media and stories that affect us in ways that are out of our control. When I came out to my parents in 2021, my mom went through everything in my childhood to interrogate if it made me gay. If I really try to connect these things to sex, I guess it makes sense. Two most influential pieces of media were Detective Conan and Digimon. Maybe that explains why I’m sometimes attracted to men on a very wide spectrum, with one side being nerdy twink Kudo Shinichi, and the other side being War Greymon. I feel very coherent now.

I waited in the rush line outside outside Castro theater with friends in the cold for 2 hours to see this screening accompanied by a Q&A with Hannah and Jane. The theater was packed to the brim and I sat all the way up in the balcony with a view of the screen that made it look smaller than my laptop. This experience was personally informative about the optimal amount of community I’d like to have in my film watching experience. When the crowd laughs out loud at every single joke, and the laughter takes so long to die down that it often makes me miss the next sentence, it’s definitely too much. AMC metreon can feel a little sterile, but can be a good experience when you go with friends and order HeyTea. The best crowd is still at Kabuki.