Blog #25 – It’s Complicated!

December 8, 2009 siverlingkimberlyrqyn

So I was watching tv the other night and this advertisement for a new movie came on. It was for a movie called “It’s Complicated” and I thought it had a similar theme with queer theory. When we talked about queer theory relating to anything that is different from the normal ideals of society, we discussed Middlesex being that in more than one way. One way being that Calliope was both a boy and a girl and then decided that she wanted to be a boy in the end. It was also related to queer theory in the fact that Lefty and Desdemona were brother and sister and fell in love and had a family. Practially all countries in the world label that as wrong, much like they would label being gay as being wrong.

The reason why I think “It’s Complicated” fits into queer theory is that it’s about a woman and man who were once married and hook up again, even though the husband is remarried to a much younger, prettier woman. I feel this works with queer theory because most people once they are divorced won’t hook back up with their ex-spouse. Not only that, but the husband, as I know, cheated on his former wife with the woman he is currently married to. Most of society would have kicked that man/woman to the curb and never came back! But this fits into queer theory because it doesn’t fit what society calls normal, even though from the commerical it seems to be that the woman’s friends really enjoy the fact that she’s having an affair with her ex-husband.