‘blue jeans’
Address: Georgia OakleyGeorgia Oakley
artists: Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes and Lucy Halliday
Year: 2022
Premiere: April 5, 2023
★★★★
most interesting ‘blue jeans’ it is the ability to tell a historical moment from privacy, especially from the gestures of the protagonist and the privacy of the places he lives (his home, school where he works, leisure places). The year the movie takes place in 1988, conservative government Margaret Thatcher tried to pass law stigmatizing gays and lesbians. The so-called Article 28 outlawed “promoting homosexuality”.
In this gruesome setting, the socialite girl from the feature film Georgia Oakley It tells the story of Jean (Rose McEwen), a PE teacher who hides that she’s a lesbian because of social pressures and fear of losing her job. The film explores how this decision had implications for both his surroundings and the vision he had of himself.
dilemmas and wounds
While it is an elegant and measured proposition, the context of ‘Blue Jean’ (political news, persistently televised, billboards, plethora of straight-up conversations) is somewhat blatant and repetitive in its display. But this didacticity is compensated by the ability of the director and screenwriter to concentrate on the face and body of the actress, the reaction of her character to difficulties from abroad: her vulnerability, dilemmas, wounds. It’s great that Oakley and McEwen each express how undeservedly uncomfortable the protagonist feels in his own body, from his own space.