✅ Thelma & Louise as Natural Born Killers in La Haine but more explicit.
✅ Noisy digital video to 35mm transfer fully consistent with script, direction, and music.
❌ Puzzling scene without function: turns out quantitative replaced qualitative escalation.
It reflects badly on humanity that legitimate sex would pass here, however turbulently, but be fiercely unacceptable in sf, romcom, or any other genre.
Addendum
By “legitimate sex” I mean “not gratuitous,” i.e., thematically/dramatically legitimate. Sorry for the confusion!
Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000.
Watched at the Metropol theater on March 16, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.