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i watched two movies that were similar yet different in the time frame of about a week. and with both of them somewhat fresh on my brain I wanted to talk about them.

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ᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴏғ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛs.

i. Similarities

ii. Differences

iii. Improvements

iv. Successes

v. Ratings

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Sҽɳƚ Aɯαყ

both of the stories revolve around a teenager being sent away from their family to a camp to help with their gayness. the outcome is the same, to treat you of your ‘homosexual disease’ and return to society a heterosexual.

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Iɠɳσɾαɳƚ Fαɱιʅιҽʂ

this can be taken as a bad thing, which yes, it is a bad thing what these two families did to their children. but throughout the movies you can see that their families are really trying to help them. they want what’s best for them and they think that these programs are exactly what they need.

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Hυɾƚϝυʅ Ex-Lσʋҽɾʂ

cameron had an ex girlfriend who turned on her while she was in the program, sending her a letter that she had taken advantage of their friendship. and jared while attending university was raped by someone who was supposedly his friend. after they became running buddies his friend decided to bring forth his feelings for jared, and at first they were reciprocated, but it turned to rape.

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Hҽʅρϝυʅ Fɾιҽɳԃʂ

cameron had two friends named jane and adam who stuck by her while they were at the center. they used each other to communicate their feelings and anytime there was any fun happening it was them together. jared mainly talked to gary who told him about how the program was a lie and that there wasn’t any hope it changing and that you needed to pretend to change to please them.

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Gαყ Hҽαԃ Lҽαԃҽɾ

cameron had a head leader that worked the program with his sister who had transformed him into a reformed heterosexual. he had a girlfriend and he started preaching about changing after his sister ‘changed’ him. for jared the head priest/leader of the church program was gay, it was mentioned at the end of the movie when they talked about the real life story.

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Cσɳƚɾσʅ

in both cases someone in the program held possessions from them. for cameron it was letters she was getting from family and friends and for jared it was his cellphone and journal. in both cases they also looked through their things, cameron’s letter from her ex girlfriend was tapered with and jared’s journal was missing a few pages because even though he story was about a male and female they felt he was imagining a male and male being together.

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Hαρρყ Eɳԃιɳɠʂ

cameron and her friends decided that enough was enough and they left the center. hitch hiking their way to who knows where. jared convinced his mom to come get him after the leader forced him to get angry at his dad. his mother took him home and even though his dad wanted him to go back he never did.

Tιɱҽ Eɾα

they are about ten years apart, cameron’s experience happening in 1993 and jared’s in 2003 ish. so it was vastly separated but still really the same practice being used.

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Gσԃ Iɳʋσʅʋҽԃ

both had some form of god having to do with the fixing of their sexual sins. cameron went to a place called “god’s promise” and jared went to a conversion therapy program. now cameron’s didn’t have as much god related things as jared’s did. her’s was more about family, and activities having to do with your sexuality. like if you sew with your mother you’re gay as a boy and if you played sports it made you gay as a girl. jared had something similar with blaming family for being gay but it also had a lot more god talk.

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AႦυʂҽ

they both had a lot of abuse involved, cameron’s conversion had more verbal and physiological abuse than it did physical. but jared’s had both.

Parents

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cameron’s parents are both deceased so she was left in the care of her aunt. she tried calling her aunt when things god really bad, wanting her to take her home. but she said it was best for her to stay. jared’s mother on the other hand immediately came to get him and take him home after he called her.

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Rҽʅαƚισɳʂԋιρʂ Aƚ Tԋҽ Pɾσɠɾαɱ

cameron had a weird relationship with her roommate, erin, who had feelings for her. the two shared a sexual couple of seconds together before it was lights out. neither really had feelings for each other but they did it together nonetheless. jared didn’t have any sexual relationship with anyone at the program.

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Tɾυҽ Sƚσɾყ

cameron’s was not based on a true story while it did have inspiration from another true story about a teenage boy. jared’s was a memoir about garrard conley.

Tԋҽ Mιʂҽԃυƈαƚισɳ Oϝ Cαɱҽɾσɳ Pσʂƚ

the fact that teens were allowed to leave whenever they wanted was a little weird. you could say it happened like that because obviously they weren’t trained professionals. like not supervising a suicidal boy. but i’m sure that they dealt with kids trying to run away over a boy cutting off his genitals. but i found it weird how easily they were able to escape.

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Bσყ Eɾαʂҽԃ

i being confused with how the program was set up and if it was only for males or for both. it seemed to be mainly for guys but then there was a girl named sarah who spoke about her struggles. so i guess in the new batch it was just mainly guys because later you see girls in a different section.

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Bσƚԋ

i wish they talked about the other characters a little more, i really wanted to get to know more about the second dairy characters and their experiences with family. i guess i’m used to tv shows where all the characters are talked about.

Tԋҽ Mιʂҽԃυƈαƚισɳ Oϝ Cαɱҽɾσɳ Pσʂƚ

it did a great job of showing the struggles of someone who was outed and had to go through god camp. it was hard to see how her ex girlfriend didn’t have to go through any conversion therapy at all and yet cameron did. it was a great example of life’s not fair and sometimes it hurts.

Bσყ Eɾαʂҽԃ

it also showed the struggles of having to deal with parents who didn’t understand being gay as something okay. it was mainly about religious parents which many lgbt kids have to deal with. it was hard and tough to watch as jared suffered through religious torture and being gay in the early 2000’s. but it had a bittersweet ending and was nice.

while they both were highly liked movies but there are some difference with the over all rating scores for both movies.

imdb gave a higher rating to boy erased over the miseducation of cameron post. rotten tomatoes gave the opposite, both professional and people. metacritic gave boy erased a higher score, while more google s liked the miseducation of cameron post.

really it’s a little all over the place with what people liked, but for the most part people liked both of them.

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