- Also Known As:
- Make Me Over
- Version:
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 1999
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- A naive teenager is sent to a sexual rehabilitation camp when her parents and friends suspect she is a lesbian.
- Themes:
- Advertising
- Alienation
- Atheism
- Christianity
Coming-of-age - Compassion
- Courage
- Curative
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Erotophobia
- Friendship
- Genocide
- Guilt
- Gynophobia
- Identity
- Individualism
- Justice
- Loneliness
- Love
- Loyalty
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Nature
- Original Sin
- Personal
- Personal change
- Political
- Political Correctness
- Preventive
- Republicanism
- Role modeling
- Sadomasochism
- Schizophrenia
Self-Esteem - Sex
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White supremacy
- Similar to:
- Dirty Shame
- Hairspray
Live a Lie - But Don’t Get Caught
Amusing movie about how Whites, despite claiming to be the master race, regard civilization as being nothing more than the necessity of
Many of the characters here realize both that trying to cure people of their
Telling people who they should and should not like and how they should and should not behave in public means having to fake enthusiasms to be accepted by people who do not even accept themselves. The presentation of those pretending to be heterosexual is
However, this movie fails to explain these purposes of homophobia (because it is made by Whites who benefit from White supremacy) accept as a form of social control to enable other Whites to know who you are, by discovering if you hate the same people as they do, without then having to do the necessary work to get to actually know you. It also makes White supremacy easier to practice by making Whites appear superior to others by Whites not appearing to be guided by their emotions more than their thoughts - except when such emotional repression is pointed out to Whites who then become more emotional than rational. Such White behavior obviates human spontaneity to create a (false) social stability. It also makes light of the fact that people
Dramatically, the characterization is a little weak (like a screenplay written by a psychiatrist who believes everyone to be neurotic) and it is only the committed acting performances that make many of the characters appear like real people rather than mannequins for the
Nevertheless, this film does make clear why Whites are so