5/23/2023 0 Comments The miseducation of emily post![]() ![]() The book is a long, meandering oddity taking on the charged topic of a gay kid being sent to conversion therapy, and it does it without any histrionics. ![]() Cameron learns something valuable in the moment, and that knowledge is what allows her to reach the book/film’s pensive conclusion.īeyond this moment, though, the movie lost sight of what made the book such an acclaimed and highly readable gem. That’s why the film adaptation of Cameron Post retains the above quote from the book it’s an emotional high point and a thesis statement sputtered by a man laid low by his stumbling, and in its way it contradicts the title. Much of being a graceful adult involves giving people the leeway to stumble through these questions the same as you do. The period is about staring the sheer, terrifying bigness of the world in the eye, and if one gets through it with any maturity you realize that life’s scary less because there’s no answers and more because there’s questions you can’t even grasp. Uncertainty is the core of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, an always reliable state to hinge a coming-of-age story on. “I don’t have a very good answer for you.” ![]()
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