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.
Fried Green Tomatoes - EC, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Stekta gröna tomater
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…
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??
Could have been gayer. Also anyone else picture Carol and Abby running their furniture shop, a bit like the cafe
when i first watched fried green tomatoes at my cousin's house at 11 or 12.. i guess i saw in idgie and ruth something i had never really seen in a film before. i told her and my aunt later about how they were in love, and the two of them got pretty pissed off and said i didn't understand the movie, and i missed the message about the true strength of friendship.
to be fair, i can't blame them for reading the film this way- as i'm certain it was very carefully made to allow them to come to this conclusion. like plenty of outwardly queer literature in the past (read: the color purple), fanny flagg's explicitly romantic novel…
the 30 minute version of this movie where it's just the main love story is my new favorite film
cada defeito desse filme foi estrategicamente pensado, não se enganem!
O segredo é o tempero!
re-watched after reading the book for the first time, which only made me angry at the typical "middle aged white lady gets her groove back" hollywood conventions they slapped onto it, which didn't bother me before i knew how funny & blatantly GAY the og book was. i can kind of understand taking away the les relationship from a historical perspective, but why add straight shit?
still lovely with incredible performances just wistful thinking about what could've been
That 1991 Winn-Dixie and Evelyn Couch in all her lil outfits, I die. Sexi post-dust bowl bee keeping food making overall wearing lesbian love hidden not so subtly in the secret recipes. I got this tape at McDonalds.
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