Evanna Lynch throughout the years...

Since I decided to watch one more movie and move to another section of my “Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not” list, I chose that movie to be light and positive (I hoped it would be and it, fortunately, appeared to be). I’ve watched “G.B.F.” and oh my god, how afraid I was that it would be problematic. Its trailer made an illegal move - it used the song from my very favourite Drarry CMV by The Mischief Managers – “Closer”, but it didn’t erase the fact that the title stands for Gay Best Friend and I suppose you already smell problems as do I – stereotypes and fetishization. All (or almost all) the cringy moments were supposed to be cringy and that’s the point! The thing is – high school, the prom is coming and three most popular girls want to be the queen of it. They also want to have a gay best friend to become even more popular, but what a stroke of bad luck – nobody’s openly gay in their school. The main character is gay but doesn’t follow any stereotypes, unlike his best friend who’s gay too and wants to come out the most fabulous way possible. Of course, since it’s a comedy, the one who’s outed is the main character and so all three potential queens start fighting for his attention. As you could have already guessed they treated him as a thing – as a prize to win and not as a person. At first. (Spoilers!) It turns out the Most popular girl of the school is a person too and what more a chemistry nerd. (“Me Inside of Me” from “Heathers” starts playing.) The other girl is talented and cares about diversity (she’s black and sometimes relates to the main character). The last queen contestant is a little silly but at least nice – she’s Mormon but has this weird conception that non-intercourse sex isn’t sex and therefore allowed begore marriage even for religious people. Her boyfriend is bisexual (or pansexual, or something like that but not straight) and tries to have sex with every gay guy he meets. Well, this moment is definitely problematic because he attempts to rape the main character. When my little stupid brain even started thinking: “Well, it’s bad, but it’s not rape”, - I said to myself: “Imagine a girl” and my moronic brain withdrew urgently – it was a rape attempt. Period. This post is too long already, so I’m not retelling you the whole plot, but I should tell you one more thing – they’ve broken the main stereotype of a teenage comedy – the main character remained without a romantic partner in the end, but reconciled with his best friend. I also liked the speech the main character gave on the prom – “I don’t want to be the gay best friend, go on gay prom and get gay married I want to be the best friend, go on prom and maybe marry”. A pretty interesting thought. A few postscripts: P.S. They’ve shown a German lesson and even my German pronunciation is better. P.P.S. People doing vogue dancing without appropriate music look so weird. P.P.P.S. It’s the first time I heard term “(dry) humping” outside of any sex-education blogs – good job, silly teenage comedy, even “Sex Education” didn’t say anything about it.