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The premise
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A couple leaving a retro screening of Sixteen Candles run into a queer theory reading group. Attempts to justify their film choice collide with academic vocabulary and affection for eighties teen movies. A surprisingly fluent defense of Back to the Future earns approval before its source becomes clear.
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Sixteen Candles, baby!
She has a type.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Girlfriend
No, I honestly haven't seen that movie in like 30 years. It makes me want to dye my bush red. I love Molly so much!
- 00:07
Kirsten
Oh, but I mean the film has some issues that are like...
- 00:11
Girlfriend
You know what? Let's get out of here.
- 00:12
Kirsten ?
What? No, um...
- 00:14
Girlfriend ?
Oh!
- 00:16
Reading group member ?
Hi!
- 00:17
Girlfriend ?
We're gonna just...
- 00:18
Reading group member ?
Oh! Hey!
- 00:19
Kirsten ?
Hi!
- 00:23
Moynan ?
Who's your new friend?
- 00:25
Girlfriend
Uh, Kirsten. These are my friends from my queer theory reading group.
- 00:30
Reading group member ?
Hello.
- 00:31
Kirsten
Oh, hi! I didn't know you were in a gay book club.
- 00:34
Reading group member ?
Oh, it's a queer theory group.
- 00:37
Kirsten ?
Okay.
- 00:38
Girlfriend
Well, what brings you around the park?
- 00:43
Moynan ?
Oh, we meet up every Thursday for our queer walk.
- 00:45
Kirsten
Oh, the queer walk. Fun!
- 00:47
Reading group member ?
Yeah, this week we're discussing Sarah Ahmed's theorization of the feminist killjoy.
- 00:53
Girlfriend
Boring!
- 00:55
Reading group member ?
No, it's actually quite interesting.
- 00:57
Girlfriend
Is it?
- 00:57
Reading group member ?
What about you?
- 00:59
Girlfriend
Oh, we were just catching a retro movie night down in the park in the dog bowl.
- 01:03
Reading group member ?
Oh. What did you see?
- 01:05
Girlfriend ?
What? No.
- 01:06
Reading group member ?
What did you see?
- 01:08
Girlfriend
Uh, God, I can't even remember. I forget.
- 01:11
Reading group member ?
Was it When Night is Falling or High Art? Or Forbidden Love, The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives.
- 01:16
Girlfriend ?
Might have been that. I think I saw that one.
- 01:17
Kirsten
It wasn't that.
- 01:19
Girlfriend
16 Candles, baby!
- 01:22
Girlfriend ?
Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 01:25
Reading group member ?
Racist date rape movie from the 1980s?
- 01:28
Kirsten ?
it is a problematic film
- 01:29
Girlfriend ?
highly problematic
- 01:30
Girlfriend
well i'll tell you what was highly problematic everyone forgetting sam's 16th freaking birthday hey everyone
- 01:39
Kirsten
yeah we um we watched the film through the critical lens of molly ringwald's article in the new yorker and she made some really salient points about both its progressive and problematic nature
- 01:48
Girlfriend ?
absolutely and it's so timely that she wrote that right now it's a great article it is
- 01:52
Reading group member ?
it's a really important super important certainly now but if you look at the movie through an intersectional lens it
- 01:58
Girlfriend
seems like yes like when jake ryan is at the intersection of sam's sister's wedding just leaning on the
- 02:02
Reading group member ?
car across sorry sorry intersectionality is a feminist theoretical model that uh looks at the interconnectedness of race class ability sexual orientation and gender in relation to social and
- 02:20
Girlfriend ?
political oppressions i
- 02:22
Reading group member ?
knew that of course
- 02:25
Girlfriend ?
you did crenshaw
- 02:27
Reading group member ?
It's Crenshaw. It's Crenshaw.
- 02:29
Reading group member ?
Anyway, we'll be at the Queer Film Fest next week, though.
- 02:31
Girlfriend
Oh, see you there.
- 02:33
Kirsten
No, no, no. We're seeing, um, Back to the Future. Remember, babe?
- 02:36
Girlfriend
Oh, right.
- 02:36
Kirsten ?
Yeah, you wanted...
- 02:37
Girlfriend ?
Yeah.
- 02:37
Girlfriend
Yeah, we're going to see Back to the Future.
- 02:39
Kirsten ?
Actually, I think this movie might unshackle us from the normative constraints of linear time and help us embrace the queer temporality that touches time through time.
- 02:49
Reading group member ?
Hot. Wow. Wow. Smoking hot.
- 02:52
Kirsten ?
Theory, right?
- 02:53
Reading group member ?
That's amazing. Good point.
- 02:55
Girlfriend ?
Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes!
- 02:57
Kirsten
Ow! You mumbled that in your sleep the other night, and I popped it up here in the old noodle factory, wrote it on my hand, and saved it for a moment just like this.
- 03:05
Reading group member ?
Wow. Yeah.
- 03:06
Reading group member ?
So much forward thought.
- 03:08
Girlfriend
She writes things down when I say them. She's the best. Choo-choo!
- 03:12
Kirsten ?
Choo-choo! Bye!
- 03:14
Reading group member ?
Bye-bye.
- 03:17
Reading group member ?
She has a type. Oh, yeah, that is a type.
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