“Boy meets girl”

Last night, I watched the movie “Boy meets girl”. It’s one of the sweetest, most delicate, positive or optimistic and affirming films that I’ve seen lately. 

In my opinion there are still several clichés in this movie, but there’s more cliché-breaking, in a delicate, respectful way, and that’s what makes it so enjoyable and compelling to me. 

I especially resonated with the film’s subtitle, “Love transcends gender”, and with the idea that two or more people can love and/or like each other regardless of their sex or gender, just because they love/like each other as persons: the details of the relationship and even of intercourse, while still being important, come after the feelings that the persons involved have for each other (and after consent). These ideas are often repeated explicitly, through words as well as actions, in this movie. 

I also liked, and resonated a lot with, the other explicit, inclusive message in this movie, namely: “you are perfect just as you are, sweet boy, or girl” — or anything including both, in between or beyond. A message that I probably didn’t receive enough while I was growing up but that I am fortunately more able to receive and give back now: to the boy-girl in me and to all the persons around me.