Jul 18, 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post won the 2018 U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Check out our interview with the cast and photos from the IMDbPro party to celebrate the premiere. Check out our interview with the cast and photos from the IMDbPro party to. The Miseducation of Cameron Post Is a Graceful Coming-of-Age Tale. It becomes a previously unseen kind of resistance to the counselors at God’s Promise, the “treatment center” Cameron has been confined to by her bigoted Aunt Ruth (Kerry Butler).
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 film about a teenage girl's experience at gay conversion therapy. It's based on a book of the same name.
Set in 1993, the story starts with Cameron Post's (Chloë Moretz) prom night. After she's caught in her car with the prom queen, her parents send her to gay conversion therapy at a place in Montana called 'God's Promise'.
This film provide examples of:
The Beard: Cameron went to the prom with her boyfriend Jamie. He's the one who catches her with prom queen with and freaks out.
Deliberate Values Dissonance: The film is set in 1993 and has a period-typical rural/suburban American viewpoint towards homosexuality.
Cure Your Gays: God's Promise is a facility that focuses on gay conversion therapy.
Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Subverted. Initially, it seems like Mark had a breakdown and tried to kill himself, but he was actually trying to mutilatehis genitalia.
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Gender-Blender Name: Cameron has a unisex-leaning-on-masculine name. This gets noted when the head of God's Promise refuses to call her 'Cam' because that's an even more Tomboyish Name and she thinks it'll add onto her 'gender confusion'.
Groin Attack: In his self-hatred, Mark cut his genitalia several times and poured bleach on the wounds.
Hypocritical Humor: Erin critiques another girl for being 'too butch' when she's the short-hairedsports fangirl. Helen isn't even butch.
The '90s: The film is set in the early 1990s. It's recent enough to be 20 Minutes into the Past but it's before the quickly changing attitudes towards LGBT people of the mid-1990s through 2010s. This allows the film to be set during a period where gay people were still largely ostracized and where gay conversion therapy was commonplace.
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Parental Abandonment: Cameron's parents are both dead.
The Runaway: The film ends with Cameron and her two friends riding a truck away from God's Promise.
Trans Equals Gay: The teachings at the gay conversion camp God's Promise believe that the teens are 'gender confused'. Adam, on the other hand, is a Lakota Two-Spirit, which they conflate with being gay on the same basis.