Movie Review: Below Her Mouth (2016) seen in theatres and partially on Netflix

Warning: This review may contain inappropriate language as this film reminds me of a time in my life I would like to forget and may contain inappropriate language used towards members of my family which in no way reflect how we currently feel about each other.

Not recommended for young children; strong sexuality, sexual situations and implications including scenes with strong lesbianism and implied infidelity towards heterosexuality.

This movie follows an engaged woman who suddenly has a change of heart as to who she is in love with following an encounter with a lesbian woman at a bar. The two engage in a torrid affair while the engaged woman begins to have doubts towards her sexual preference as a result.

Honestly, I really don’t even consider this a movie. It’s basically just upwards of two hours worth of images which on one hand make me really happy to see while on the other hand, this is my worst nightmare. You see, there’s a bit of a story as to how I first saw this movie. In the early stages of my best friend Chris’ marriage, (which had only occurred less than a year before this movie came out on Valentine’s Day that year,) I was feeling a little bit lonely as I was still getting used to him being busy with his wife enough to not always have time for me. However, at the same time, I really wished I had my own girlfriend. As everybody kept telling me up to that point, and even after I first saw this movie, I was the lucky one in not having a girlfriend. It meant that I could do whatever I wanted without having to compromise, ETC. With Chris especially busy on Valentine’s Day, it gave me a lot of opportunity to see more movies and around this time, I was going every other day no matter if I had heard of the movie or not and even paying to see movies again if I liked them. Well, this trip to the cinema was one in which I did not know what I would see. This is when I came across the title “Below Her Mouth,” which I knew implied a romantic movie but I had not heard of it further than that. Honestly, it sounded like a porno. Another thing I should mention is the fact that I had just started my road back to recovery following five years of being labelled as crazy in the aftermath of the trauma that was my first girlfriend along with the role that mom unintentionally played, this is an entirely different story. Anyway, if it was a lesbian movie, (I did not know if it was before going into the theatre,) I sort of questioned whether it was the right time for me to be viewing that kind of movie, one in which lesbians were prominently featured. You see, this comes following one month removed from my therapy that I had undergone being cut short due to the person who was giving it finding another job before completing the therapy, and thus I did not know how I would react if I was to see that. However, I was really desperate to see a movie so I decided to give it a try. To put it into perspective, literally everything that went on in my brain in terms of what I thought was going on during my crazy state happened in this movie. It had a supposed heterosexual woman being forced into a lesbian relationship with a woman…..all of the sex between those two which on one hand actually made me happy to see but in turn made my brain go nuts as it relates to how I would equate that to my situation with mom. Of course, after the movie, despite numerous attempts to reach her by phone, I could not and in the interim between each attempt at trying to reach her and failing, I got upset and screamed blue murder, ETC. Well can anybody guess what happened to me once mom returned my four or five missed calls? She caught me in the act of getting mad and after telling her about the movie I saw, she forbid me from watching movies that depict lesbianism. I should probably mention that in saying this, I do not intend to offend that women who might be lesbians but I have to be honest in saying that sexual preference played a big part in my downfall as a teenager and this movie only served to aggravate and intensify those thoughts I used to have in the aftermath of my first relationship.

Having said all of this though, I will say that the sex scenes, (which were very graphic at some points throughout,) made me very happy to visualize. You know, in general, there used to be a time where I was jokingly accused by mom of going to the movies just for the enjoyment of the popcorn. While this has been proved as true at certain points, (where I would not be able to fully explain the movie I saw or even understand it throughout, this was well before I started writing movie reviews,) but instead would just comment on how good the popcorn was while complaining it was too expensive, ETC, this movie was one I was into from the start as the very first scene depicted lesbian sex. I went into that movie with a large popcorn, (as back then, there was no official rule stating what size I should purchase, although I’m pretty sure mom always preferred I get the small,) and by the end of the movie, I still had a large popcorn having spilled half of it on the floor out of amazement over what I saw. To me, this is what romantic movies in the decade of the 2010’s were lacking, (although maybe without the lesbian sex, I can still deal with heterosexual sex.) With that in mind, even though this movie intensified my negative thoughts which plagued five years of my life, I have to give it credit for making me very happy and the movie being worth the money I paid to see it.

Movie rating: 9 out of 10

I came to this conclusion as the parts of this movie I enjoyed outweighed the bad points of this movie

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