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I have to admit, I gave a little cheer when the penis showed up inPlan B.
(The dong does not have star quality.)
I certainly dont mean to say thatPlan Bis prudish or sex negative about the ladies.
It assumes young women have sexual agency, and it allows them plenty of action along variously fulfilling vectors.
Yet despite or because of its candor, the film is careful not to traffic in titillation.
Star-in-the-making Kuhoo Verma plays Sunny, a bundle of midwestern high-school yearning just starting to sweat the PSAT.
Whatever her secrets, Lupe stands firmly in Sunnys corner, so they hatch a plan.
In its sway, Sunny experiences the twin highs of empowerment and mixed liquors.
I feel so stimulated!
she shouts at Lupe as the music thumps.
Is this what white privilege feels like?
Turn it up) and when the journey needs events to accelerate.
The actors perfectly create a deep affection between them, an ease that undergirds every scene.
Yet theres no question the films real prize is the silver string connecting Sunny and Lupe.
The up-all-night road-trip rhythm keeps things feeling light and a little stoned even though the hazards are real.
Why are two teenagers surrounded by so much danger?
Hunter volleys a joke, Sunny smashes it overhand.
But its not just our heroes who see through the adult nonsense; its the entire class.
But its in that bright and sunny classroom where the real horror has to be defeated.
