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.
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
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…
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??
The story was well-told, the acting felt real and a number of cliches were cleverly avoided, to the benefit of the film. Made me think about ruts I need to avoid as a husband, especially being too involved in my hobbies to see my wife or to improve myself. There were plenty of emotional moments, and the film ends in a very satisfying way.
—¿Cual es tú película favorita?
Esa pregunta es muy difícil de responder, pero siempre que me la hacen pienso en Tomates verdes fritos.
Es un película que me costó mucho empezar a ver porque el título no me inspiraba nada. Es imposible imaginar de que puede ir, no te esperas nada, hay muchos giros inesperados y eso precisamente es lo que hizo que me encantase.
Una película muy bonita sobre el amor y la amistad, se la recomiendo a todo el mundo!
i fell in love for idgie????? and i know ruth too, i mean that honey scene..... she was just hypnotized and she knew right THERE that she was doomed.
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