Face it, Archie was a Sistah.

I have no idea how I have not seen Chasing Amy until now. That being said I'm glad I saw it when I did. It seems like a film really ahead of it's time. It really reflects the progressiveness of the underground comix scene with multitude of issues it tackles including race, sexuality, identity, and relationships. When I was watching it I really felt it fit in with the dialogue that is going on today and it was interesting to watch a film that was at the start of when issues of sexual identity and it's flexibility really started being acknowledged seriously and questioned. At the time it must have been super controversial given that most of the dialogue was underground and not a prevalent discussion as it is today.

I found Amy to be a very intriguing creature. Today the character Amy would probably identify as pansexual, where that term probably wasn't widely accepted then and as shown in the film there was prejudice of flexible sexuality in both homosexual and heterosexual circles. The fact that she even suffered Holden's extreme ignorance about sexuality, like saying that lesbian sex doesn't count as 'real' sex, blows my mind. Given the times though and that the majority of people probably thought more along those lines I guess it makes sense that she wouldn't just kick him to the curb immediately. Amy puts up with a lot of shit throughout her whole journey, but really sticks to it because she knows what she wants and who she is. She doesn't bend to societal pressures and listens to herself instead of others.

On a side note, I thought all the behind the scenes and view of a life of an underground comic artist was super intriguing, especially Hooper X. The fact that assumes a completely different identity for a comic that he doesn't even write to manipulate a certain demographic into buying comics is crazy. The scene with him going crazy on a crowd is just magic. All of his dialogue about Archie and Jughead being lovers was hilarious too as it showed how a lot of underground comix artists took those wholesome comics and their style and twisted it to make a commentary about sexuality and repression in a 'straight-laced and wholesome' society.