Ariel Would Never
We’re finally into September after a wild and diverse August filled with professional women, queer Chosen Families, owl-headed slashers, horny lighthouse keepers, and highly controversial homoerotic underground monsters (which begs the reminder: listen to the podcast instead of just commenting on the post).
Trace and I, along with special guest Jessica Scott, are kicking off the new month with Agnieszka Smoczynska’s ‘The Lure’, a feminist parable about two mermaids – Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszańska) – who become cabaret sensations in Warsaw in the 1980s.
As their power and popularity grow, the sisters are betrayed by their chosen family, night club singer Krysia (Kinga Preis) and her shitty son Mietek (Jakub Gierszał), for whom Silver undergoes a dramatic physical transformation (cue the trans reading of this already very queer film).
Despite the musical numbers and colourful costumes, this sure as hell ain’t Disney! (It’s Hans Christian Andersen)
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Episode 194 – The Lure (2015/2017) feat Jessica Scott
It’s time to reel in the catch of the day: Polish coming of age mermaid musical horror film The Lure (2015 or 2017).
Along for swim lessons is Jessica Scott, who helps to clarify that Silver’s storyline does *not* complicate the film’s feminist reading.
Plus: the clear trans allegory, our fave musical numbers (and how the film connects to Burlesque), ties to both Disney and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and why Mietek SUCKS.
Cross out The Lure!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of Clive Barker’s seminal queer classic, Hellraiser (1987).
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