The original post: /r/movies by /u/manav_yantra on 2024-12-24 10:41:55.

So today I watched the movie The Cement Garden (1993), and the reason I decided to watch it was because of this dialogue that I either saw a clip of or read somewhere a while ago:

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short… wear shirts and boots… because it’s okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading; because you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly, you’d love to know what it’s like… wouldn’t you? What it feels like for a girl.”

I really liked this dialogue, so I decided to watch the movie. But yeah, the movie was definitely a weird one. I knew it was controversial, and I can see why. Plot-wise, I didn’t like it that much. It was like a mix of many genres, a bit disturbing genre, a bit weird genre, a bit confusing genre, and I didn’t really enjoy it that much. However, since it’s an adaptation of a book, I wonder what the book is like, because I’m sure the character study is done in detail there.

So yeah, I decided to watch it because of the dialogue, and ended up watching a weird movie. Still, that dialogue was good.