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Director Sav Rodgers explores his personal journey as a queer trans man whereas coming to phrases with the tough legacy of his favorite movie. Read our Chasing Chasing Amy evaluation.
Above picture credit score: Bill Winters
Kevin Smith’s 1997 movie Chasing Amy is probably his most critically acclaimed work. It is probably not his most beloved – I nonetheless suppose that’s Clerks – however it nonetheless has a powerful, loyal fan base, a lot of them who discovered solace in its clumsy exploration of a LGBTQ+ storyline.
Yet, Chasing Amy has additionally garnered numerous criticism through the years, and for good motive. Here’s a refresher on the movie’s plot: Ben Affleck’s comedian e book author meets and falls in love with one other comedian e book author, Alyssa, performed by Joey Lauren Adams. Alyssa, nonetheless, is a lesbian, which understandably complicates their budding friendship and any potential relationship.
Smith has brazenly mentioned that the movie’s sexuality politics haven’t aged notably properly and in Chasing Chasing Amy, Sav Rodgers’ documentary on the movie’s sophisticated legacy, Smith is refreshingly open about his personal flawed strategy to the movie.
Rodgers clearly holds numerous love and adoration for not simply Chasing Amy, however Smith himself. With Chasing Chasing Amy, Rodgers got down to make a documentary about his favorite movie and his personal makes an attempt to return to phrases with the criticism the movie has gathered through the years, however the remaining end result can also be a private, intimate portrayal of his personal id.
The movie options a number of floating head interviews with movie critics, business individuals and folks concerned in making Chasing Chasing Amy, weighing in on the movie and the circumstances surrounding its launch. The documentary additionally makes a degree of showcasing one other movie that premiered concurrently Smith’s breakthrough movie Clerks.
A scene in Go Fish, written by Guinevere Turner and directed by Rose Troche, impressed Chasing Amy. Turner notes, with solely a touch of contempt in her voice, how Smith would raise real-life conversations and put them straight into Chasing Amy, benefitting from the lives of actual lesbians who by no means noticed the sort of fame Smith did. Ouch.
A later interview with Adams herself, who was relationship Smith on the time of constructing Chasing Amy, seems to be the movie’s secret weapon. Adams speaks candidly in regards to the time and confesses she doesn’t love her reminiscences of it. Although she speaks of Smith largely fondly, she additionally speaks of the open misogyny of the indie movie world.
“We all knew who he was,” Adams says, referring to Harvey Weinstein. Chasing Amy premiered on the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, which, as Smith regretfully notes, was the identical 12 months Rose McGowan was assaulted by Hollywood’s most prolific producer. It lends an undercurrent of tragedy to Rodgers’ movie even when it solely appears to drag it additional away from its authentic focus.
While Chasing Chasing Amy is continually compelling, each in creating an admirably complete take a look at the 90s US indie panorama and of how Chasing Amy suits into the bigger cultural dialog virtually 30 years later, Rodgers’ private journey doesn’t all the time fairly slot in. His story is inspiring and heartfelt, however typically pushed out of the narrative.
“It’s not the film I got down to make, however it’s the film we’ve got,” the director notes in the direction of the top. Despite its flaws, Chasing Chasing Amy comes closest to any fashionable documentary to truly resolve the issue of, or at the very least supply one thing significant to the dialog about, whether or not or not it’s applicable to love, and even love, one thing deeply problematic.
How can we speak in regards to the works of Kevin Spacey now that his legacy has been sophisticated by authorized issues? Should the Academy have given the Best Actor trophy for Casey Affleck who had been accused of abuse? There are not any neat, conclusive solutions to such questions, however at the very least Chasing Chasing Amy has the heart to discover tough subjects with levity, coronary heart and humanity.
Chasing Chasing Amy is enjoying on the BFI London Film Festival.
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