Kissing Jessica Stein¸ and Richard Kelly’s
Donnie Darko. Nobody ever walked out of these movies, except to pee and then hurry back. I don’t remember much about Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi’s
Baise-Moi (usually translated as
Fuck Me or sometimes
Rape Me), except that a bunch of people walked out of it. A bunch meaning there were only a half dozen people left in a theater of about 30. It was subsequently banned in France for almost 30 years.
Punk girls know some things about sex and violence. Mainly: that sex and violence are found together as often as peanut butter and jelly, and that the entire planet is conspiring to keep girls down. So those are the two things I was thinking about as I watched the mass exodus in the theater that afternoon.