During the Nineties, a young filmmaker named Kevin Smith was making waves in his career, from his breakout debut Clerks, to the controversial Dogma which dealt with themes surrounding religion. It seemed like Kevin Smith was the kind of director who was setting out to shock people, but also to make them think.
Cut to nearly 25 years later and Chasing Amy, one of Smith’s more mainstream hits was starting to have a reappraisal. A film which was released under Kevin Smith’s brand of humour and irreverence, it looked like it was set out to provoke another outcry.
However, among the queer community, Chasing Amy meant something to some people which perhaps wasn’t intended. In particular, to Sav Rodgers it became a life long obsession as he began to understand how he could express his identity and realise who he really was.
Chasing Chasing Amy is a documentary by Sav Rodgers about the film that changed his perspective of himself whilst growing up and how it shaped the person he became. So, with this obsession in mind (especially with Ben Affleck), Rodgers decides to see how far he can get with finding out as much as he can about his favourite film.
Rodgers’ journey takes him from the filming locations of the film to even meeting Kevin Smith himself, who reached out to offer his own insight and to perhaps better understand how much it meant to other people. Also including interviews with Joey Lauren Adams as well as other cast and crew involved with Chasing Amy, Rodgers’ documentary shines a light, offering an insightful critical view of the quirky Nineties romcom.
Also speaking to others like Rodgers who had discovered Chasing Amy, it of course doesn’t get away with being criticised from a queer perspective as well, which only helps to fully round out a deeply introspective view of a movie that perhaps most people had not thought of in that way.
It also becomes very emotional and personal to Rodgers himself as his own transition almost mirrors that of Chasing Amy’s reception itself. Chasing Chasing Amy starts out as a nerdy nostalgia trip and surprisingly ends as the feel-good documentary of the year as Rodgers starts to realise that he can’t always be Chasing Amy.
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