This blog is written by Kevin Rocha and Martha Salazar for English 143K : Queers that Kill at UCR.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Homoerotic Friendship
A homoerotic friendship was seen in the film "Heavenly Creatures" starring Kate Winslet. The movie depicts two girls, Pauline and Juliet, that develop a friendship that later becomes intense and passionate. The intense passion behind the friendship causes everything to spiral out of control. They start to become delusional, and in the end, they end up killing somebody. In a way, it's similar to the friendship between Gretchen, Regina, Karen, and Cady from "Mean Girls."
The friendship in "Mean Girls" starts off as a regular friendship between three girls welcoming a new student into their group. That friendship, too, spirals out of control due to the passion behind the girls' frienship. There are differences between the friendship dynamics in both films. The passion in Pauline and Juliet's friendship made the love for each other grow stronger, and in "Mean Girls," it made the girls go from friends to frenemies.
At the end of both films, the friends were disbanded and went their separate ways, because together, their relationships were unhealthy and caused mental stress on the girls, and in "Heavenly Creatures," it even caused the girls to kill somebody.
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