5ive Girls

Found this one during my regular trolling of YouTube. Not much worthwhile to mention here although I am making a post about it because it (unknowingly) used superpowers as an allegory for outcasts and marginalized subcultures. Also, ironically, the lesbian was the only girl to survive. All five girls had a different sort of superpower gift and it had caused them to be outcasts in a society that rejected them for being different. The lead girl was telekinetic and slightly telepathic. The lesbian could heal and had this oddly interesting backstory of having had her parents use her has a faith healer for money. Then there was a girl who could move through objects (but not walls), the blind girl who could see the past, present and future and the wiccan/channeler. They all had interesting limitations to their powers which made them far more believable, but primarily they were planted and used as a means to bring them there (all as rejected outcasts, of which the Lesbian was just one, and only cursorily because of her sexuality). The pay off of their powers was minimal at best mostly because the demon and the story and the world, apart from the girls having powers, was a cluster-fuck mess. Scenes were long an confusing and not connected. The demon's power and means to its demise were not explained and generally it was just a bad film. It went way overboard on the 5 points of a star imagery and was just clunky and confusing most of the time. It was also hard to keep the girls separate and they weren't introduced well enough for us to care about them and why they were there and what they ment to each other.

I really liked the allegory of superheroes position girls as outcasts and rejects, linked to sexuality. It was very x-men like but with a more real spin. They had limitations and were restricted by these limitations to being just slighty more powerful than regular girls but just as subject to human emotions, fears, inabilities and weaknesses. I'm obviously very interested in examining society's rejects through super powers and fantasy. Everyone wants more power but what are the consequences of this power? How can the "powers" of my characters position them on the outside? What does having power do to you in a world that ignores or rejects that?

One highlight I forgot to mention earlier was a line of dialog from the blind girl, "When you're blind, packaging is less important." I can no longer remember what it was in reference to, but it was simple way to fundamentally question the power of the visual, in a film, which is all about the image. It got me thinking what is important, especially if you start stripping humans of the basic 5 senses? What is left?