MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Three of Hearts (1993)

   For those people who spend their political energy clamoring for
   "positive images" of gay men and lesbians, this is a double-edged
   sword. One on hand, it portrays a lesbian relationship consumed
   with everyday gender oppression and power plays.  The women are
   sympathetic characters, basically, played by conventionally beautiful
   actress/models. On the other hand, one of the women hires a gender
   oppressed (relatively) male escort to rape her ex-girlfriend, which
   is extreme, even for Hollywood patriarchy. So tell us, was the film
   portraying lesbian relationships as dysfunctional or hopelessly
   regular? Was this a "positive" image? Save the price of renting this
   post-Crying Game neo-patriarchy and buy a copy of MIM Theory 2/3:
   Gender and Revolutionary Feminism.