Film Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, Term Paper

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Indeed, the way the two girls move together once they meet suggests a growing obsession that is not entirely explained by reference to shared experiences or to agreement on how wonderful Mario Lanza is. Throughout the film, there is a strong sense of a deeper attraction that cannot be explained except in sexual terms, even if the girls themselves never think in that way and if those around them also do not see the meaning of this attraction. Queer deviance in that sense has to be imposed by later observers, meaning the audience for the film, because that leap in thinking was not taken by the society in which the girls lived.

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What the film suggests is that this leap would have been made had people known more about the situation at the time.

Of course, the psychological impact of the film is extended even further by a fact not known to the filmmakers at the time, and that is the fact that Juliet Hulme is today better known as mystery writer Anne Perry. The fact that her imagination today carries her to the world of mystery and death, set in a vision of Victorian England for the most part, could add to any analysis of the way she and Pauline interacted leading up to the killing….....

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