Just an observation, not really a comment on this particular story.
I went to see Birdman yesterday. It was a weird movie. Right in the middle of it two obviously heterosexual characters (they were both talking about how their men sucked) were comforting each other.
I used to work as one of four men in a staff of 300 women. I am used to seeing women comfort each other in times of stress. This includes deaths, births, divorces and break ups.
The scene was not unusual. In fact, it was pretty “normal.”
Then they started kissing each other.
In 25 years in the working environment I mentioned above, I never saw this type of consoling end up with a “make out” session. Never.
The directors or writers put the gratuitous lesbo scene in the movie for no apparant reason other than to either shock, titillate, or make a statement that lesbo love was better than hetero love.
It just did not make sense.
Getting out of that scene would have been funnier if during the embrace is one looked at the other and made some kind of look like, “Is this gonna go somewhere? Because that would not be cool....”
It would be interesting to ask the director what he was trying to convey there.
It was completely out of place.
Indeed.
I am a woman, and so i know EXACTLY what you are talking about.
And you are correct.