The 52: Happy Ending
From June 2023 to June 2024 I'll be watching a lgbtqia+ film each week and coming back here with my thoughts, feelings and plenty of hopes we aren't met with the "kill your gays" trope. I call this The 52.
One of the single most frustrating films I have *ever* watched - if you hate characters who can’t communicate? Get ready to detest Luna.
So Luna is dating Mink, and after faking her first orgasm with him… she just kept doing it. A YEAR PASSED. She guiltily finishes herself off in the bathroom while he sleeps and Mink has just blithely assumed they have the perfect relationship, and why you ask? Because Luna says they do, agrees with him on everything, and life goes on. Should Mink, I don’t know, learn to be introspective and ask a question about how things are for both sides of the team now and then? YEAH. Neither of them is faultless in this situation, but my god, Luna - with every step she takes - is just a terrible, terrible person.
Deciding a threesome might give her a better chance, they meet Eve and, lo and behold, maybe Luna is only understood by... women? Our terrible protagonist now has the best of both worlds, where she gets to continue on with Mink like life is perfect and go behind his back, cheating with Eve after the threesome just isn't enough. Eve is an interesting character, and seemingly a very kind one, although someone willing to continue to sleep with Luna after she finds out Mink doesn't know about the arrangement like Luna first claimed.
Luna’s behaviour drives a wedge between me, as a viewer, and any kind of feeling I might have for her as a character going through a difficult experience. I couldn’t help but think, again and again, that it wouldn’t be a difficult experience if only she were honest, but honesty seems something she is incapable of- and it seems she gets off very lightly for all the grief she leaves in her wake. She is a happy character, a loved character, a seemingly kind character, but with every choice she makes it is difficult not to find yourself feeling alienated, aware that everyone deserves better than the love she is capable of giving, and that she does not deserve the love that she so greedily hoards.
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