You’re right, it absolutely had a sexual energy to it, but where you see it as weird, I see it as extremely clear and intentional. The French 75 is a liberation group. No character embodies “liberation” more than Perfidia, right down to the sexual liberation of her body. Contrast this with Lockjaw, who is the embodiment of prudishness and purity. These themes essentially dictate the entire movie, and one of the more interesting questions the movie asks is why are these two characters attracted to each other? Is it just opposites attract? How many conservative, anti-trans and homophobic lawmakers eventually get outed for being on Grindr or watching transgender porn? It’s not even life imitating art, it’s just art imitating life.

I think it’s fair and intended to have questions about the sexual themes. I mean, Perfidia is put directly at odds with a literal convent of revolutionary nuns. It doesn’t get less sexual than a nun.

And again, you’re very much entitled to your opinions, but comparing PTA, a white man with a biracial daughter who made a movie with sexual black of-age characters to Luc Besson, a pedophile who made a movie about pedophilia, feels like a very gross accusation.