One of my favourite quotes from the movie is: “No one hates us for being gay. It’s a blend of classic high school sex comedies from the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early ‘00s but there’s a strong presence of the fast fashion, TikTok, openly queer world we live in today. Like Sex Education, Bottoms doesn’t exist on a specific timeline. And it feels real - not just a gimmick or weird caricature. Want to make out with hot girls who hardly know you exist? Start a fight club under the guise of “female empowerment”. We are self-serving and borderline narcissistic - but only for the greater good. It represents our generation as the sometimes awful people we can be. But while Bodies Bodies Bodies has a political edge to it, Bottoms is the stupidest movie I’ve ever watched. As a result, Bottoms is one of those rare gems that perfectly encapsulates the humour of our generation without making a mockery of it. After all, they are the audience - chronically online queers who have a deep understanding of socio-political issues but can also rattle off any number of memes or TikTok sounds without hesitation. That’s because Rachel Sennott and Emma Seligman understand their audience. It’s nasty, overtly sexual, unhinged, but somehow still respectful of boundaries. It’s so well-written it genuinely felt like somebody had been recording the conversations my friends and I have at brunch and put it into a movie. Very few movies or TV shows can rapidly land joke after joke in so few lines, each hitting harder than the one before, like Bottoms does. Especially when both seem to capture the frustrations and awkwardness of being queer in the 21st century. To have both Shiva Baby and Bottoms under Emma’s belt at such an early point in her career is pretty impressive. Emma directed Shiva Baby, also one of my favourite movies, which has a cult following and is adored by the queer community. A large part of the success of Bottoms comes from the director and co-writer Emma Seligman.
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