When the film started, it reminded me a bit of “Kes” with the dysfunctional family and the impatient older brother. Fortunately, it was almost Disney-like. Interestingly enough, even though it deals very overtly with the definition of masculinity, all the lead characters names can be used interchangeably for women– tony, jackie, billy. The only person who has an undoubtedly masculine name is Micheal, and he’s a homosexual (or possibly I misunderstood what he was saying). Perhaps it was a coincidence, or may be these names were given to show how the lines between gender norms can be blurred just like the names.
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That’s funny. I never noticed that all the names except for Michael are interchangeable with women and funnier still that it’s Michael who is the most feminine. I agree with Jessie that it was nice to see a happy ending for a change as that has definitely not been the case for many of the films that we have watched.
I just wanted to add that I also thought the film was pretty similar to Kes in the same context. The family (with a father instead of a mother) started out similar for me but definitely changed throughout the course of the film. For a second at the beginning, I almost thought that the actors were the same for the protagonists. I liked the Disney-like characteristic; there was a happy ending that we didn’t always see in the other films we watched this semester