![]() ![]() It all ends up being a delicate tightrope to walk. Still, it ended up being close enough that Chris Stuckmann (a popular movie critic and former Jehovah's Witness) said in his review their depiction was so accurate, seeing elements of his own life play out on-screen felt "euphoric." ![]() (Prospector Films)Īs to the truthfulness of the movie's other major element, Watts herself grew up gay in a Jehovah's Witnesses community - though she has said You Can Live Forever is not autobiographical. June Laporte, centre left, and Anwen O’Driscoll, centre right, appear in this still from the new film You Can Live Forever. Though this time, the film's grassroots popularity came from queer youth who seemingly saw themselves reflected in the film. Without aping any narratives, the general feeling is just as present in You Can Live Forever - a style choice that, while effective for this story, has already become a suffocating emotional hallmark.īut however overly relied upon, the hurt Watts and Slutsky inflicted on their characters was cathartic enough to gain a viral following after a 2022 debut at Tribeca Film Festival - and a subsequent Skinamarink -style piracy campaign. And because it involved suicide, male friendship and tears, so many people assumed Dear Evan Hansen must be about a boy bullied for his queerness they nearly rioted after discovering the actual (and, admittedly, bonkers) plot. Heartache, pain and trauma are tropes so inherently associated with queer kids in cinema that a score of articles interpreted the equally tragic Oscar nominee Close as either adjacent to, or in the LGBTQ canon - despite it having no objectively gay characters. Mentally combining a film about a '90s-era religious community with a narrative about gay youth should give you a blueprint for what's to come. Riceboy Sleeps and Brother are Canada's buzziest new movies.Essex County is comics phenom Jeff Lemire's toughest adaptation yet.It's not until meeting the fervently devout Marike that she allows herself to take part in the bible studies, church meetings and field service like all the rest - all while the two move decidedly, and dangerously, beyond friendship. It's a fact that the reserved-to-a-fault Jaime doesn't exactly rebel against, but initially doesn't take much interest in. ![]() ![]() Though Jaime firmly rejects the religion for herself, both Beth and Jean-Francois's lives are deeply woven into the local Jehovah's Witnesses community. After her father dies and her mother suffers a breakdown, Jaime is sent from her hometown of Thunder Bay to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban) and uncle Jean-Francois (Antoine Yared) in Saguenay, Que. In the scope of the movie, all that is primarily experienced and observed by two characters: teen loner Jaime (Ontario's Anwen O'Driscoll) and relative do-gooder Marike (B.C.'s June Laporte). That name is a reference to the since discontinued Jehovah's Witnesses publication titled You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, itself a reference to the belief that a coming "new system of things" will eventually allow people to live eternally in a new heaven and earth. Originally known as You Can Live Forever in a Paradise on Earth back when the idea was a competitor in Telefilm's 2013 Pitch This! program, the movie takes its title and premise from the Jehovah's Witnesses Christian denomination. ![]()
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