The Miseducation of Cameron Post

After all, the algorithm's a bitch, and we're just two lesbians with mics out here trying to survive.

Next week, Angie will be back, and we will be discussing the 2018 drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which stars a real-life gay [laughs] Chloe Grace Moretz, and is-

Love her

... yes.

They're so – they're fantastic.

I also love The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Yeah.

It's so good.

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if you don't do that, you end up with something like The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which I don't know if either of you ever watched that film, but it hit on some, like, very similar beats.

It's also about a g- like, a teen girl who goes to conversion therapy.

It's the sad version of this film, and it-

Absolutely.

It also stars Cara Delevingne, who I remember she was in a movie, The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

This is a decade ago or so, if I'm not mistaken.

But really beautiful film.

So this book is Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth.

She wrote The Miseducation of Cameron Post that people might have read or seen an adaptation of.

I would describe this book as Sarah Waters meets The Blair Witch Project.

So a brief overview of the plot.

And that, that was like...

I was like, "Yeah, sure, uh, Cameron Post, I remember this."

I also feel like, um, the other thing is, like, the, the owner of Spooky Island-

Mm

Demetra, we actually had Desiree Akhavan on Outtakes a few years ago now.

I think it was around 2019 when their film The Miseducation of Cameron Post was on at MIFF.

And it's been really interesting following their career.

They've spent the last few years focusing more on directing for TV, including shows like Hacks and Overcompensating.

But they really, it seems like their calling card out in the world was was a feature film they did in 2014, followed up by The Bisexual.

And I have to tell you, we absolutely loved Desiree's film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post when it came out, but this show completely went by us.

I went back and had a search in emails.

I obviously looked to see if we'd ever discussed it on the show.

And then when it does come to conversion therapy, it did make me think about the year 2018 because we had those two movies that came out the same year.

So we had The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased.

And they're both on this list that I made a while ago.

And I did send it to Carson before this.

um obviously we'll see what comes next and with these australian directors specifically i would shout out jennifer kent um who did the babadook and did um oh my gosh i'm blanking on the name now the

nightingale i like that one it seemed everyone else hated it but brutal there was something in there for me

absolutely brutal very worthwhile film i'd recommend anyone check it out um and then also of course the raca raca boys with bring her back and talk to me um you know australian horror is in a good place australian just film right now is in a really good place so i would hope that he continues to really deliver but as a filmmaker like i find him to be so much more intriguing and exciting and like i'm so interested what he does next compared to someone no shade like curry barker or kane pearson's who will talk about you know in a few weeks so i i'm not concerned about this being smaller i'm used to queer films being smaller you know the miseducation of Cameron Post wasn't exactly a giant film and I really like it so I'm not I'm not concerned but it makes sense to me but I I'm super high on the guy I'm I will be there for his next one for sure and same with like the cat you know I'm excited to what Joe Bird does next I know Stacey Clausen has a couple like bigger projects I think he's working with like Peter Berg later this year so I'm excited to see where this goes but I'm always gonna you know enjoy what this film was also on the level

Yes.