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Watching Andrei fat-shame a classmate by calling her a “mammoth” and other demeaning terms

When Andrei gets accused by his classmates of being gay, he reacts in a visceral, violent way-as if getting accused of being homosexual is the worst possible thing to happen to him in school. The characters freely wield the term “retarded” to describe their classmates. The film’s problematic and regressive, American Pie-era storytelling doesn’t stop with how it portrays Ramona and Anemona. Andrei’s classmates describe hooking up with women in the most primitive way and give advice that runs along the lines of, “pretend to seem interested in whatever she says so she’ll want to have sex with you.” When Ramona calls Andrei for help and implies that the guy she’s dating hit her, Andrei figures that she probably did it to herself to get his attention. In almost every scene with Ramona and Anemona, the camera pans to their lips, legs, and body. On top of its troubling content, the film’s plot makes little sense and its characters’ actions lack any motivation (.)įrom the very first second of the film, Oh, Ramona! champions the male gaze and objectifies its female characters.

Oh, Ramona! somehow manages to hyper-sexualize and objectify women, victim-blame a woman who says her boyfriend hit her, embrace homophobic tones, and fat-shame women in just one hour and 45 minutes.

I haven’t watched the movie, but this orgy of virtue signalling (more aptly called “idiocy showboating”) will probably convince the target audience, if they happened to read it, to watch it:

ANDREI CIOBANU ANEMONA TV

There are enough Netflix movies and TV shows that tackle sex and teens in a smart, thoughtful way, like Sex Education, and there’s no need for viewers to waste their time with Oh, Ramona! The characters seem to make decisions at random and the plot twists to the point that there is no real resolution. “Reporter” Tess Cagle seems to think that Netflix movies must teach and what they teach should be obvious to everybody, including herself:īy the end of Oh, Ramona!, it’s hard to pinpoint what the filmmakers wanted their audience to learn. Based on the book Suck It, Ramona!, coming-of-age comedy Oh, Ramona! follows nerdy teen Andrei (Bogdan Iancu) as he recovers from getting turned down by his school’s popular hot girl, Ramona (Aggy Adams).

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