Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Stekta gröna tomater, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes - EC
This film is so frustrating. It's not just the lesbian erasure or the caricaturization of racism, it's that it the nearness of it to something good. Great, even. Simply dropping those major problems by making the queer subtext explicit or giving depth to the black characters and their stories and showing at least some of the complexities of racism--that is, it's more than good white saviors and Klansmen in this world, that white supremacy is more dangerous than that--would make this film much better, but even then, there are narrative flaws and a fat shaming storyline and a problematic reference to Ninny's neurodivergent son that just makes his invisible presence a prop. And all of those things are unpleasant to…
Could have been gayer. Also anyone else picture Carol and Abby running their furniture shop, a bit like the cafe
ladies is it lesbian to make a life together and raise a child with another woman and have every food scene between y'all be major queer subtext??
I would have preferred fried greek potatoes. But that would have been a different movie, maybe like the Postman Always Rings Twice.
I remember talking about this with my dad and him going "such a sweet film about friendship"......sir they were wlwing all over those tomatoes get a grip
The fact that nothing ever popped off between Ruth and Idgie. I was incensed. How is this a classic? This is not a good movie.
Straight washed lesbian classic. You will never understand how truly sexually charged the bee scene is as a non-queer person.
i turned to my parents halfway through this and said, "you're really telling me that people watch this movie and don't pick up on how in love with each other ruth and idgie are?" and my mom told me it was "supposed to be ambiguous," which is, frankly, absolutely insane
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