The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Review
Director: Desiree Akhivan
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Forrest Goodluck, Jennifer Ehle
Set in 1993, Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) is caught getting intimate with her female best friend on their prom night. She is sent to a Christian camp called God's Promise where she can "pray away the gay" and is subjected to questionable gay conversion therapies with the camp's fellow residents.
A film centred around the controversial topic of gay conversion camps would presumably have clear heroes and villains. However, Desiree Akhivan is more interested in focusing on exquisite detail rather than painting with broad strokes as she creates intimate character studies by approaching all of the characters with empathy and compassion. The moral horrors of gay conversion therapy are evident to us but to a number of disciples, the camp and its practices are necessary in "curing" their Same Sex Attraction (SSA). They place their faith in the project whist others, including Cameron and her friends Adam (Adam Goodluck) and Jane (Sasha Lane), resign to and accept their circumstances as they find it's the only way to survive the experience.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post boasts an excellent cast, led by a career-best performance from Chloe Grace Moretz. Moretz is reserved and her expressions are so subtle that it's almost impossible to gauge what Cameron is thinking or feeling at any given moment. But we get the impression that the character doesn't even know herself as she internally struggles to decide whether she's going to surrender to the process or reject it completely. The supporting cast is equally strong, most notably John Gallagher Jr as Reverend Rick who works at the institution and also once fought against his own "SSA". Although he presents a warm and relatable figure to the young adults, his ingrained conditioned thinking that he imparts onto the residents inevitable make his the film's most tragic character.
Bursting with quietly truthful moments and surprising wit, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a poignant character study and one of the most important and well-crafted films of the year, helmed by an exciting and remarkable filmmaking force.
EB
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Forrest Goodluck, Jennifer Ehle
Set in 1993, Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) is caught getting intimate with her female best friend on their prom night. She is sent to a Christian camp called God's Promise where she can "pray away the gay" and is subjected to questionable gay conversion therapies with the camp's fellow residents.A film centred around the controversial topic of gay conversion camps would presumably have clear heroes and villains. However, Desiree Akhivan is more interested in focusing on exquisite detail rather than painting with broad strokes as she creates intimate character studies by approaching all of the characters with empathy and compassion. The moral horrors of gay conversion therapy are evident to us but to a number of disciples, the camp and its practices are necessary in "curing" their Same Sex Attraction (SSA). They place their faith in the project whist others, including Cameron and her friends Adam (Adam Goodluck) and Jane (Sasha Lane), resign to and accept their circumstances as they find it's the only way to survive the experience.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post boasts an excellent cast, led by a career-best performance from Chloe Grace Moretz. Moretz is reserved and her expressions are so subtle that it's almost impossible to gauge what Cameron is thinking or feeling at any given moment. But we get the impression that the character doesn't even know herself as she internally struggles to decide whether she's going to surrender to the process or reject it completely. The supporting cast is equally strong, most notably John Gallagher Jr as Reverend Rick who works at the institution and also once fought against his own "SSA". Although he presents a warm and relatable figure to the young adults, his ingrained conditioned thinking that he imparts onto the residents inevitable make his the film's most tragic character.
Bursting with quietly truthful moments and surprising wit, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a poignant character study and one of the most important and well-crafted films of the year, helmed by an exciting and remarkable filmmaking force.
EB
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