Dating the enemy in Persopolis

[alias_sqbr]

Not feeling at all review-y but I keep meaning to post about these. So:

A review I did of the graphic novel Persepolis. Very good autobiography of a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Also I finally got around to watching the 90s movie Dating the Enemy. I have a major soft spot for body swap/change stories, especially genderswap, but it is so often done badly I've kind of given up on the genre. This isn't a fantastic film (the writing/directing etc is...ok. For an aussie film. From the 90s) but it did manage to have some clever/insightful touches, and most importantly made the central couple's differences largely a function of who they were as people rather than their gender. Also the characters have a refreshingly fluid attitude to their sexuality for a mainstream film :)

Hmm. Dating the Enemy and Wives and Daughters are about the only two romantic movies/tv shows with a female science nerd lead I can think of (And no Roxanne, The world is not enough and any other films with hot "physicists" don't count :P) There need to be more!

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

That's true. Does she get a decent romantic plotline? I never managed to get into the show.

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

The entire show is an excuse for romantic tension between her and her partner. :)

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

That is true. Don't forget the hilarious dialogue though.

The show is actually very cute in that the male lead is a very catholic romantic, with a child. While the lead woman, very firmly believes in more casual relationships for sex (to deal with biological 'imperatives') not in one true love or anything romantic.

[alias_sqbr]

Huh. Maybe I should give it another go, all I saw was the pilot.