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It Follows - in which a high school loser makes a movie about the girl who refused to have sex with him, just because he wanted her to, and he turns into a hero who saves her from sexual promiscuity. Whatever, some people see this as a movie about an STD, but it is a movie about the worth of women and how it is derived from their sexual choices. Some girl has sex with a guy she's been on a few dates with, but after the consensual sex, he ties her up and shows her that she is now in danger because he transmitted a sexually transmitted curse to her, and he had to tie her up because the movie needed rape imagery, but the sex had to be consensual so the nerdy guy could have sex with her later, and it wouldn't be weird. It was still weird. Okay, so, while this girl is supposed to be on the run from the sex demon, she just goes home and chills with her sister and their quiet friends, including this one nerdy guy, who has always been in love with her. So, she's the only one who can see the demons, or whatever, and she's trying to track down the guy who gave it to her, I guess that's part of the plot, but he has no new information, and it leads no where. It just kills time. Honestly, the atmosphere in the movie is great, and it was really well shot, but the characters are so bland, and they don't really do anything. Eventually, the main girl has sex with her neighbor when he volunteers to maybe let the demon get him. They have sex, and things are quiet for 3 days, then the demon comes for him at night, disguised as his mom, for NO REASON and proceeds to kill him by grinding on him, topless, excreting something that looked like semen. For reals. Also, for no reason, there was a bunch of jizz tissues at the abandoned apartment the gang looks for the original boyfriend at. Whatever. So, then the girl needs to sleep with someone else to get the monkey off her back, so she has sex with three guys on a boat, and then her innocence is trashed, and the nice pool she was swimming in is all crummy and empty. Real subtle, movie. So, then, the monster is still coming after her, because the movie isn't following its own rules. It continues to break the rules when the dumb nerd has sex with the girl so he can help her fight the monster next time it comes, but when it shows up, he still can't see it. Who knows why? No one. Why does a bullet wound not really slow it down in the second act, but it can completely destroy the demon in the final confrontation? Why did it look like weird strangers every other time, but this time it looks like her father? The stupid plan to kill it with electricity in a high school pool and some lamps is stupid. Also, the water is a metaphor for her sexual worth, and it is restored when her father comes back? Fuck you, movie. Everyone who said this movie doesn't punish women for having sex is dead wrong.

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