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Liquid Sky

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Liquid Sky	comment	Liquid Sky is an incredibly strange 1982 science fiction film. The plot revolves around Margaret (Anne Carlisle), a bisexual model and performing artist living in a neon-lit, New Wave apartment with her partner and fellow performance artist, Adrian (Paula E. Sheppard) - who is also hoarding and dealing a substantive amount of heroin. Besides Adrian, Margaret has a number of other sexual encounters with the often sleazy men and women she meets through the local alternative nightclub scene, as well as a tense on-and-off rivalry with the androgynous model Jimmy (also Anne Carlisle), an addict living high off of Adrian's supply.Unbeknownst to the protagonists, aliens have landed on their rooftop, and are inhabiting Margaret's mind and body in order to feed on human pleasure from sex and drugs. Things then begin to get much weirder - and much, much deadlier for everyone involved.One of the signature features of Liquid Sky is its abrasive, dissonant experimental-electronic musical score, which sporadically appears as a re-release (usually with a steep price of sale) from various alternative record labels.The film - both its music and its visuals - went on to become an inspiration for much of the contemporary Drag and Fetish scenes, as well as several genres and scenes of electronic music including Electroclash and Minimal Synth.
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Liquid Sky / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Liquid Sky / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Near the end, is the tension between Margaret and Jimmy based on mutual lust, or is Margaret simply eager to use her newfound power to off her insufferable rival?
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Liquid Sky / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Liquid Sky / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Margaret's drama teacher, who slut-shames her and then pressures her into sex before meeting with a well-earned demise.
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Liquid Sky / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Liquid Sky / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Taken at face value, the film has a Downer Ending in which the openly queer protagonist dies, as do her bisexual lover and lesbian live-in partner - although with that said most of the assumedly heterosexual characters aren't spared either. Tellingly, critics often attribute the film with metaphorically predicting the prevalence of AIDS in the years following its release.
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Liquid Sky / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Liquid Sky / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Jimmy is charming, but an egotistical drug addict who is just as selfish and abusive as nearly every other named character in the film.
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Liquid Sky / int_31fd8c52	type	Performance Artist
Liquid Sky / int_31fd8c52	comment	Performance Artist: Jimmy, Margaret, and Adrian are all involved in the Performance Art scene at the unnamed alternative nightclub where much of the film takes place.
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Liquid Sky / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Liquid Sky / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Does the spaceship finally decide to take Margaret with in some form, or is she simply dead of an overdose while the spacecraft abandons her?
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Liquid Sky / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Liquid Sky / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Margaret smashing the decorative mask in her apartment. Also, Margaret falling from the ladder at the end of the film.
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Liquid Sky / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Liquid Sky / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Margaret's drug-dealing girlfriend, Adrian, is often cruel and controlling. At one point she nearly attacks Margaret with a knife.
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Liquid Sky / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Liquid Sky / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Adrian is in a same-sex relationship with Margaret, although the movie's plot implies they haven't had sex in a while. Adrian is abusive and suggested to have inherited mental illness from her mother. She eventually forces herself on Margaret in front of an audience at the end of the movie in order to prove a point.
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Liquid Sky / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Liquid Sky / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Johann's conversation with Adrian. She believes he is a police officer threatening her with an investigation and enforcement action, whereas he is simply trying to warn her about the alien invasion in her own home.
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Liquid Sky / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Liquid Sky / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Prior to the start of the film, Margaret left home and came out of the closet only to find herself, during the events of the story, terrorized by an abusive partner, raped by a fellow clubgoer, pressured into unwanted sexual favors by her Drama teacher, having an affair with an emotionally unstable drug addict, and incapable of having sex that doesn't cause people to die and in some cases literally disappear into thin air. One interpretation of the ending is that she commits suicide while high an an overdose. Wow.
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Liquid Sky / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Liquid Sky / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: The final encounter between Margaret and Jimmy is portrayed as an intense competition with overtones of mutual lust. Noticeably, this is one of the very few encounters in the film where Margaret seems as into the buildup as the other partner involved (since several of these take the form of someone pressuring or forcing themselves on Margaret - even her own long-term live-in partner Adrian).
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Liquid Sky / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
Liquid Sky / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: Anne Carlisle acts in the role of a Drag King while playing Jimmy, a stylized, androgynous bisexual man whose intense charm is countered by his equally intense cruelty and selfishness.
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Liquid Sky / int_855af0ab	type	Club Kid
Liquid Sky / int_855af0ab	comment	Club Kid: Quite a few proto-club kids appear as part of the main characters' social circle.
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Liquid Sky / int_85c4ebe0	type	Bisexual Love Triangle
Liquid Sky / int_85c4ebe0	comment	Bisexual Love Triangle: The film builds up a lot of time teasing the idea that Margaret is in one with Adrian and Jimmy.
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Liquid Sky / int_8d522951	type	Self-Imposed Exile
Liquid Sky / int_8d522951	comment	Self-Imposed Exile: Adrian suggests fleeing to Germany after discovering that sexual contact with Margaret is killing people.
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Liquid Sky / int_8d5e187	type	LGBT Awakening
Liquid Sky / int_8d5e187	comment	LGBT Awakening: Margaret has a monologue in which she recalls that her coming out experience had to do with bucking social conventions and avoiding the expectations of her conservative and patriarchal WASP background, before realizing that women can be just as abusive and controlling as men.
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Liquid Sky / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Liquid Sky / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The men (and women) eaten by the aliens at the moment of orgasm are mostly rapists.
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Liquid Sky / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Liquid Sky / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: One interpretation of the aliens is that they're possessing Margaret. However, it could be that they are simply piggybacking off of her energy while her decisions remain her own.
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Liquid Sky / int_985d3ad0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Liquid Sky / int_985d3ad0	comment	Crosscast Role: Actress Anne Carlisle in drag as Jimmy.
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Liquid Sky / int_9d1fa121	type	Alien Catnip
Liquid Sky / int_9d1fa121	comment	Alien Catnip: It's suggested the aliens feed on human pleasure. It's not made clear if this is just because they get high off of it, or because it contributes to their survival.
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Liquid Sky / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Liquid Sky / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Played with. From Margaret's perspective, she is empowered to take revenge on people who use and take advantage of her, although she herself may simply be being used by the aliens. Possibly a genuine version If Margaret joins with the aliens at the end, rather than simply being used and then abandoned by them.
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Liquid Sky / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Liquid Sky / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Jimmy makes a very big point of preferring men, and offers Margaret an encounter mainly for access to Adrian's heroin stash. At the end of the movie Margaret kills Jimmy by giving him an orgasm, but it's not clear how much is physical stimulation as opposed to genuine sexual attraction. (Anne Carlisle, the actor who plays both Margaret and Jimmy, has stated that she reads Jimmy as exclusively gay). A reporter interviewing both Margaret and Jimmy is mentioned to be gay. One of his opposite-sex colleagues notes with a satisfied grin that he's not gay all the time.
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Liquid Sky / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Liquid Sky / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Much of the film takes place at a queer-friendly Performance Art club (with an open-walled gender-neutral toilet no less!), and the movie's club scenes are often credited with inspiring later generations of drag performances and fetish events (the latter of both a straight and queer variety).
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Liquid Sky / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Liquid Sky / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Anne Carlisle wrote one in 1987.
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Liquid Sky / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Liquid Sky / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Johann stays with a secular Jewish woman who rejects kosher traditions by insisting on a shrimp dinner.
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Liquid Sky / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Liquid Sky / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Margaret's Drama teacher expresses disdain for her sexually provocative aesthetic choices, but also sees them as an excuse to take advantage of her. Adrian repeatedly expresses her bitterness with Margaret's perceived promiscuity and involvement with people other than her, often using slurs and insulting terms to vent.
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Liquid Sky / int_cc28a8d7	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?
Liquid Sky / int_cc28a8d7	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: Jimmy makes a point of preferring men and not usually having sex with women, but everyone he either hooks up with or makes a pass at in the film is a woman. A reporter interviewing both Margaret and Jimmy makes a point that he wouldn't have sex with Margaret because he is gay.
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Liquid Sky / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Liquid Sky / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: Margaret is bisexual and in a relationship with a woman; Adrian is either lesbian or bisexual; Jimmy states that he prefers men but expresses some interest in women. Jimmy is interviewed by a fashion reporter who is openly gay. While a few of the other characters are only shown in heterosexual relationships, it's implied that the club scene the majority of the protagonists are a part of is a more than friendly starting space for gay hookups and relationships.
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Liquid Sky / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Liquid Sky / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: In spite of his cold and sinister personality, Jimmy is incredibly popular, and has "all the mannerisms of a sex symbol." Margaret enthusiastically takes up on his offer to have sex, and the reporters of both sexes near the end of the film clearly find him attractive.
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Liquid Sky / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Liquid Sky / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: It's up to the audience to determine where the movie falls on the issue, but much of the movie is spent suggesting that the aliens are at first attracted to the euphoric high people get from the "liquid sky" (heroin) of the title - before deciding that feeding off of human orgasms is even better. That said, the characters in the film who are addicts are not portrayed pleasantly, in spite of their outward glamour.
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Liquid Sky / int_df6a6ad3	type	Speculative Fiction LGBT
Liquid Sky / int_df6a6ad3	comment	Speculative Fiction LGBT: Perhaps one of the better known explicitly queer science fiction films of the 1980s.
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Liquid Sky / int_f1ac9897	type	Female Misogynist
Liquid Sky / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: Adrian repeatedly refuses to respect Margaret's sexual boundaries, at one point referring to Margaret disparagingly as an "uptight WASP" when she rejects the sexual advances of a man visiting their apartment.
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Liquid Sky / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Liquid Sky / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Adrian had an unpleasant childhood in which her mother acted out and was institutionalized. The film implies it explains (though doesn't excuse) some of her own behavior in her relationship with Margaret.
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