My Old Ass
My Old Ass
My Old Ass: Teenagers might feel that they know everything. (spoiler alert: they really do not.) However, what about the factor of getting older, and every decade being more and more certain that it is us who know better? (spoiler alert: not necessarily.)
This is where the new movie of Megan Park comes in. My Old Ass begins like one of the ordinary teenage romcoms but, however, finishes with a far more touching value regarding maturity, irrespective of the years one has lived.
In the movie, she is in the last days of her high school and is heading to college for the first time and that summer is very different for Elliott (Maisy Stella). She is brought up with her parents and her two younger brothers on a cranberry farm and intends to grow up doing anything but farming. She has a girlfriend and a very close circle of friends.
The climax of the movie happens when Elliott takes some mushrooms on a camping trip with friends and hallucinates meeting her 39-year-old self (played by Aubrey Plaza). As it turned out, her “old ass” has quite a lot of things to advise: be more respectful to mom, spend time with the children, buy shares of Amazon. Isn’t that what most people would say to their 18 years old self? But she leaves with one more ominous piece of advice: Do not get anywhere near anyone called Chad.
The trouble is that Chad, who is to be met sooner or later, appears to be a wonderful person – sweet, smart and funny. Why then, does this man have to be the Chad, the very one she must run from at all costs.
In many ways, this is a story that we have probably heard before- of self discovery and romance. This is why this film manages to circumvent the usual straightforward position on sex, gender and love – and in this respect, My Old Ass is quite a new perspective within genre.
In the opening scene of the movie, Elliott declares explicitly that she is “gay.” However, when Elliott does develop a romantic and sexual attraction to Chad, she finds she cannot maintain this self-identification. Getting out of Chad and becoming her ‘old ass’ requires another mushroom trip to the woods where she instead gets drugged and impersonates Justin Bieber on stage trying to convince Chad to be one of her ‘One Less Lonely Girl.’
Eventually she goes to meet her friend Ro to make her “low-key confession,” and Ro mocks her for declaring herself “straight,” which Elliott mockingly calls “the most insulting thing you ever called me in your entire life.”
Both of them, however, in the end, Ro mirrors, “the advice the same which she told Elliott I could credibly once gave you that she says, ‘As you said it yourself about labels and shit, it’s up to you. If it feels right — use it, if it does not for whatever reason, do not.’”.
Most of the time and in general “queer” images of adolescent too-teenage film (if one might so categorise this) dramatises the acceptance of the protagonist – and in a way My Old Ass does this too. But the fact that character Elliott does not turn away from the compass of the journey and relinquishes previous sexual and love interests is rare in this genre.
It is not surprising that most of the teen films as American Pie and that extend to The To Do List (also staring Plaza) such as the Derivative as All-what Mussiegars assume. However, even the queer films do focus on one trajectory either of the protagonist love in the films ‘Loves Simon’, ‘Alex Strangelove’, ‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’, ‘The Half Of It’ that is heterosexual to homosexual. It is rare that these kinds of films do not end in the heroine embracing new identities or exploring romantic feelings towards other women.
In contrast, Elliott avoids pushing either of the opposing views further and in this regard, the film parallels sleeper films such as Princess Cyd, Boy Meets Girl or Sleeping Tigers. Instead of putting a rigid divide in Elliott’s interest in Chad, she takes it into her head and thinks whether this evolution, will make her bisexual or pansexual, which opens up even more considerations about her character.
When almost one-fourth of the youth of the Generation Z census are willing to identify themselves outside the heterosexual norm which is indeed the diagnosis, and even more than two-thirds of this fraction are WSW, one would expect more teen aimed films quite livid with youthful characters practicing shifting attractions.
It came as no surprise that this representation in its most developed form in the film My Old Ass is an exception in the young adult genre. And, perhaps, the rarest is, that Elliott’s sexuality in this film is one of the sides, rather than the focal problem.
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- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Country: United States
- Director: Megan Park
- Cast: Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Percy Hynes White
