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Love Is All You Need? (2016)
Love IS All You Need
Love Is All You Need? is a film that re-imagines the world in such a way that homosexuality is the "norm" and heterosexuality is the "perversion". This re-ordering of the world is a device that the director and writer, Kim Rocco Shields, utilizes to illustrate the universal nature of prejudice, discrimination, and bullying, and the price society pays for its intolerance. Ms. Shields has crafted a sophisticated and psychologically savvy story in which we are confronted with the arbitrary nature of societal and religious taboos; this films deals with the universal nature of human emotions, showing just how basic the need and desire to love and be loved are. Love Is All You Need? is at times a very uncomfortable film to watch, but the discomfort is purposeful, in that the audience member is actually experiencing the pain and emotions of the characters on screen—these induced feelings are quite effective in helping one to identify with the characters and what they are experiencing. In the end, the movie does much to help us see that Love Is All You Need.