Marsh goes as far as stating, “there is no such thing as homosexuality.” Tasking all disciples with gradually filling out their personality icebergs-an exercise aiming to surface the kids’ supposed reasons to engage in SSA-she systemically breaks down their will to exist in the way they were born.īut despite all the silent emotional abuse, Cameron knows she’s just a perfectly normal teenager responding to her natural, budding desires. Lydia Marsh ( Jennifer Ehle, quietly terrifying with her fake smile) and her visibly oppressed, “ex-gay” brother Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) call homosexuality. That’s what the leaders of the facility-the stern, Nurse-Ratchet-like Dr.

She proves to have a stubbornly strong head on her shoulders-she shows us as much early in the film, when she looks at the dressed-up image of her prettified self in the mirror with foreign eyes and wipes off the excess lipstick her adoptive mother (or a family member, possibly an aunt) had dotingly put on her moments ago.Īll that prep is for Cameron’s high school prom, during which she will be caught passionately making out with the prom queen Coley Taylor ( Quinn Shephard of “ Blame”) in the backseat of a car, sealing her fate with a stay at a facility known as “God’s Promise.” There, Cameron becomes known as a disciple, joining a group of other male and female disciples trying to “cure” their SSA (same-sex attraction). But almost like a quiet revolutionary, Cameron somehow seems to know better than hating herself, despite the odds that are stacked against her. This is the pre-marriage-equality era when liberals slapped “Clinton/Gore” stickers on their vehicles before mainstream Hollywood and cable TV earnestly stepped in with stories of LGBTQ acceptance and a time where the ripple effects of the AIDS crisis that unjustly spread hateful rhetoric on homosexuality were deeply lived and felt. The terrifically versatile Chloë Grace Moretz plays Cameron, bringing out both her character’s youthful curiosity and precocious maturity.

Co-written by Cecilia Frugiuele and adapted from Emily Danforth’s acclaimed 2012 YA novel, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is the survival story of a young, orphaned, small-town Pennsylvanian, forcefully sent to a Christian gay conversion therapy camp, armed with nothing other than her non-negotiable sense of identity.

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