#The repressed working class 60’s Neapolitan lesbians versus the repressed 2000’s middle & upper class Mexican bisexuals

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realisation that lenú and lila l’amica geniale are the equal and opposite reaction to tenoch and Julio y tu mamá también

#The repressed working class 60’s Neapolitan lesbians versus the repressed 2000’s middle & upper class Mexican bisexuals #In either case! It’s about class! And a nation at a juncture! And violence seeping at the edges! And repressed queer sexuality #Julio and tenoch fuck once and never talk to each other again lenú and Lila never fuck (acc’d the books) and end up in a psychosexual #Codependency for half a century #Either way! Class issues and the most insane teenage behavior you’ve ever seen and trips to the beach! #L’amica geniale #Y tu mamá también #something about the jealousy rage pent up rage pent up grief at what can’t be I want to put your head through a window I want your life I #Want to be you I want to destroy you forever #The way Julio views tenoch the way Lila vies lenú #I think there’s also so much that’s fascinating in the way l’amica geniale is about Napoli and the way t tu mamá también is about Mexico #With the internal center/periphery dynamics #A story about two poor girls from the ocean-adjacent working class area #And their struggle to/journey to the national capital to the middle and upper classes to the center #And then the story about the boys from the comparatively upper echelons of Mexico City driving out to Chiapas to the beach #Perfect inverses! #A weekend versus fourty years