If you want to portray a lesbian relationship in a positive light, what should you contrast it with? Love Sick answers with heterosexual incest. I think the director felt that he had to frame his argument in that way because the relationship between the two young Romanian ladies isn't a particularly healthy one. That's not to say that it's an unhealthy relationship. It's just troublesome (read: real).
Alex (the girl on the left in the above picture) is a sweet but shy girl who is seduced by the more outgoing, and out of control, Kiki (the one on the right). From the start we see why these two opposites are attracted to each other. Alex seems inexperienced and ready for a more worldly girl to lead her through her sexual awakening, while Kiki needs a more grounded person to help her work through her family issues (like, the fact that she's sleeping with her brother). The beginning of the film follows their charming courtship that involves a lot of "sleepovers" in Alex's room under the nose of her clueless landlady.
However, the cracks in their relationship are readily apparent and everything goes downhill once Alex decides to go back to her parents' house in the country during the school break. Kiki feels abandoned and begins dropping really strong, really passive-aggressive hints that she wants to go with her. Alex allows Kiki to come along but it is understood that their love affair must be hidden from Alex's old-fashioned parents.
In the country things get off to an awkward start. Then Kiki's brother/former lover shows up in a jealous rage, having been driven by the older woman he's having an affair with.
Things get pretty ugly pretty quick.
Chicks. Can't live with 'em, can't have hot lesbian sex without 'em.
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