New LJ community

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12films_poc is a spinoff from 50books_poc. The community challenges you to watch and review 12 films written and/or directed by people of color.

This will be easy for me because I watch so many Japanese, Chinese, and Hong Kong movies already.

Comparisons are not the point, but the OH and I were talking about this community and he pointed out it would be (more of) a challenge for us to watch 12 films written and/or directed by women. Then we thought about watching 12 films that pass the Bechdel Rule.*

The Bechdel Rule states that a movie
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something other than a man.
Here is the Dykes to Watch Out For strip in which it appeared.

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This will be easy for me because I watch so many Japanese, Chinese, and Hong Kong movies already.

Do you plan to meet the challenge with those, or will you use this as an occasion to try anything that might not otherwise have hit your radar?

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I've already added one movie to my poor, overburdened Netflix queue as a result of watching the community. And it's not Japanese, Chinese, or Hong Kong. However, it is Thai, and it has a queer/trans theme. I've already watched one movie in that subgenre - Beautiful Boxer, which is highly recommended if you don't mind martial-arts violence.