Chasing Amy

Released in 1997, Chasing Amy was the third film in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, but it felt very different from Clerks or Mallrats. Those films were mostly built around jokes and goofy situations. Chasing Amy still has plenty of humor, but underneath it is a much more personal and emotional story. The film was written and directed by Kevin Smith, and it remains his strongest work. Smith was still working with a…

Statistics and experience tell us that if one film by certain director is hailed as masterpiece, the next one is likely to be viewed as disappointment. Kevin Smith learned it the hard way, following the unexpected, almost fairytale-like, success of his ultra-low budget debut *Clerks*. His next film *Mallrats* was abandoned by critics and audience alike and Smith at few occasions even had to apologise to some of his…

Chasing Amy is the first of the Askew movies from Kevin Smith that leaves me a bit mixed on how I feel about it. It's got a lot of the things that made the previous movies interesting, but at the same time, some things about it just don't seem to work as well as they previously had. That isn't to say it's necessarily a bad movie, but it's the one I am most critical of at this point in the franchise. Focusing more on…

Aside from the title that sounds like some kind of romance, movies are wonderful. It processes many moments: A friendship that passes in love or unfulfilled love that is hidden in friendship, can a gay person become straight or vice versa, how a person chooses to be gay, why is the partner's past so important to us? In addition, it fights some of our prejudices, which I enjoy in films, if you do not know what I mean…