Movie- Loving Annabelle

“Do I make you nervous?”

Most times when we hear about teacher-student relationships and the words that usually comes out everyone’s mouth is “It’s not right”. I agree it’s not. But have anyone ever thought a student can prey on a teacher’s vulnerability. And that is exactly what Annabelle did.

Loving Annabelle can easily fall into the category of the typical catholic school theme story. Annabelle, the “bad girl” needs to be reformed and her teacher Simone had the unfortunate task of dealing with her teenage rebellion.

I would be lying if I said I hated this movie and that I didn’t overlooked the fact that the teacher-student relationship is not a good example. I love this movie

This was the second lesbian movie I saw because of the theme songs All over me  and Gravity me that a very sweet young lady left in my inbox.

The characters in the movie are relatable. I empathize with Simone’s character, she’s meek and repressed. She clearly needs some type of therapy because there are a lot of things going on with her. Then there is Annabelle, who challenges everything. I appreciated that Simone resisted Annabelle’s advances. Simone’s focus was on aiding Annabelle re-think her eccentric behavior.

Annabelle’s character was not as rebellious as they like us to think.

Simone had boundaries and followed all the rules, she pointed them to Annabelle. But not by saying you are my student or portraying any forceful authority. I thought Simone’s delivery and demeanor was fragile especially when she said, “I can’t do this.”

But that’s what I love about the movie.

The fact that Simone is a closeted lesbian was irrelevant. It was only relevant for us to see where her repression came from but irrelevant because we saw that she was always professional. When you know better you do better.

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Annabelle pushed her buttons, the scene in Simone’s room when Annabelle touched and said “Do I make you nervous”, the flowers she sent to her in class with the notes and the moment at the beach Simone resisted every advance. After the scene at the beach Simone finally stop socializing with Annabelle. It’s about boundaries and respecting people’s space and a little of bit sexual harassment.

Annabelle’s classmate and roommates saw her attraction for Simone and heckles her about it she becomes frustrated and fought with one of the girls.

Simone’s aunt is a bitch, sorry to say. Something about her is incestuous, Simone facial expression and body language says it all she makes her very uncomfortable.

We endure an entire movie with no real physical connection between Annabelle and Simone just a lot of sexual tension. Until the night of the school dance when Annabelle mounted the stage and sang “All of me” that was the straw that broke the camel’s back Simone’s guards were let down. Finally the love scene! But it was short lived as another troubled student Katrine ruins it for everyone by intentionally mentioning to Simone’s aunt Annabelle did not come back to the dorm after the dance and she suspected Annabelle spent the night with Simone. They are caught as they hurriedly dressed and just like that the movie is over and the police are taking Simone away.

Moral of the story don’t let your student lead you into temptation because there will be a jail cell waiting for you.

At the end of the movie I felt cheated; Simone tried tirelessly to do the right but Annabelle’s persistence weakened her. And what does Annabelle get out of it, her teenage heart broken.  Loving Annabelle is a cult lesbian movie you can watch it over and over and never get tired of it.