2009
“Serving in Silence” Lesbian Movie Film Review 4.5 Stars
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The story starts out simple enough, a mother coming home from being away from her children (one of whom is played by a very young Ryan Reynolds). She surprises them by buying a house (4)near them and announcing that she is going to move!
Exciting enough, then she meets an artist (isn’t that fun), and falls in love, on the beach no less. She comes out of the closet guns blazing and hides it from no one, not her father, not her job 
(military) nor her kids. WHAT INTEGRITY, wow, when the interviewer (whom is deciding on her security clearance) asks her, she says “I am a lesbian”. And further on in the movie, she says “I am an honest person I do not lie”.
HER RELATIONSHIP – ok, so I have some issues with this part of the script, you never s
ee (6)them kiss, hold hands, or relate to one another in any other way than being really good friends. I wonder why, did the writers want to place focus on the emotional, and non physical connection of these two women, instead of having steamy sex scenes as so many lesbian movies have. But I think that this is serious over kill, I get that they don’t want sex scenes in the movie. But, they don’t even hold hands, have a snuggle session, kiss, I think they might hug but so does every other character in this movie. You can’t tell me that the real woman that this movie is based upon, Margarethe Cammermeyer, never kissed, hugged, snuggled or showed any sort of affections to the woman she has fallen in love with. I would love to know their reasoning if anyone has a clue?
ACTING ABILITIES – How can you not get good acting when the leading lady is Glenn Close (Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer) and Judy Davis (Diane) as her love interest. The scenes were carried out with grace, I am not sure If I saw the chemistry between the two leading ladies (as described above) but the relationship between Col’s with her father and sons was very believable, I wanted to hug them all at several points in the movie!
COMING OUT – This is a super duper coming out movie, this woman comes out in so many (5)ways in an hour and 30 mins. that it will make your head spin. To herself, to her love interest, to her father, to her kids, to th
e military, to her job, to her friends and to the world! All of which happen on separate occasions (with the exception of the world). The coming out explosion had the potential to be overwhelming, but surprisingly it was done very well, weaved with mundane life experiences and getting to know the characters it wasn’t too much, and very well done!
VIDEO QUALITY – I have such issue, with lesbian films being so poorly done, low budget, bad video quality, and often talentless hacks slamming some misguided plot into a moderately functioning movie. You might say “that is so harsh, its art”, and I say blah blah blah, if I shut off a movie in its completion (or often times before cause I can’t bear to watch it anymore) and think to myself “I could have done that with my pal’s from the softball team and my camcorder.” Then it’s not worth me calling it art, or ever wasting another minute watching it again, even if it does support my community. SORRY SOAP BOX
THIS FILMS VIDEO QUALITY – Was great, didn’t irritate me even for a minute. This I would even say is better than most made for TV movies that are out there (this is a made for TV movie which is now out on DVD). Better than most lifetime movies (which I love).
EMOTIONAL MOMENTS – I love movies that give me a sense of completion, I am sure that the real life ev
ents were not as neatly tied up as this movie was, but we got to see the respect that the soldiers that were under her command held for her! And what is better, at the very end they tell you what happened to the Col. in real life, what she is doing now, and how things turned out for her! I LOVE THAT
MY RATING – so in conclusion I give this movie 4.5 stars, I took off .5 stars cause I wanted to see some snuggling, some realistic interaction (not a sex scene) between the Col and Diane!!! But other than that small issue this was a definite watch and an absolute BUY!
Cheers!!!!!
