Heavenly Creatures (1994)

This movie’s idea of young queer love is so pure that it’s astonishingly beautiful, chaotically untamed, and dangerously fatal. As the multi-genre crossover is not so strange at all here, the blood-covered faces and innocent hand-holding gestures seem just two different sides of a coin. The camera is often extremely close to Pauline and Juliet’s faces, but there’s a certain distance that it tries to maintain from the characters. In a hetero-normative society, these heavenly creatures are deemed so incomprehensible that people fear them while trying to tame them by breaking their wings. No wonder why they had to do something.

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