The movie does not hide that this is a form of Hell.Įven so, director Desiree Akhavan’s Cameron Post becomes a most unconventional telling of a most conventional experience: coming of age. Ehle’s psychologist seeks to prove that each boy and girl’s “perversion” in her camp stems from a childhood disorder that can be corrected. Thus enters Chloë Grace Moretz’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a movie set in a much less tolerant 1993.ĭepicting the confusing odyssey inflicted upon a teenage girl who was caught having a lesbian relationship with her best friend by her disapproving evangelical family, Cameron Post follows the titular character as she is forced into joining a “pray the gay away” camp ruled over with an iron fist by a smiling and malevolent Dr. While there are still many who wish to not treat gay neighbors as equal citizens, simply judging by how our media now “understands” institutions as heinous as gay conversion therapy camps is evocative of how the conversation’s improved.
Mostly for the better with regards to the LGBTQ community in contrast with the religious community. Our perception of what it means to be tolerant has thankfully evolved over the years.
