You is exposing the creepiness of romcoms

The Guardian

"Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Boy does everything he can to get girl," says Hadley Freeman. "This is the structure of pretty much every love story, from fairytales to romantic comedies, from The Graduate to Love Actually. As a result, it’s the dynamic most of us have grown up as thinking as the norm, even the ideal: the man is the active subject, and the woman is the passive object, who must be persuaded into love." Freeman says You is showing how romcoms often blur the line between seduction and stalking.

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