Review of As You Are

To be completely honest, I started watching this movie because of the semi-viral scene where Mark tells Jack "I wish you were a girl." I could feel the agony of the characters from just that short scene and I felt compelled to watch the full movie all know the whole story. I loved the main characters(Jack, Mark, and Sarah), but I felt the most drawn to Mark. Mark, a teenager in the 90s struggling with having an abnormal home life as well as identity and sexuality problems, despite not necessarily being the protagonist, certainly had all my attention. That has a lot to do with the acting on its own as well as his actual, written character. He has relatable characteristics while also being portrayed as both a victim and a (kind of) perpetrator. I think it's very important to have characters like that in film.