Show Me Love tells the “romantic” story of two Swedish teen girls, Elin and Agnes. Although there is an explicit theme of queer romance in the film, I argue it is a lesbian film that is not about lesbian but questions the definition of it.
My first approach to prove this claim is to describe Show Me Love (SML) as a counterpart of Ghost World (GW) in terms of girl-girl affection/relationship—in GW, Enid is presumably heterosexual in consideration of her alternative relationship with Seymore; however, her attachment to Becky implies a questionable queer relationship. Conversely, SML depicts how Elin “comes out of closet” from being “straight”, yet, she is not necessarily a lesbian because of the complexities in her character.
Another similarity between SML and GW is the same formula of the ensemble, which includes a popular, outgoing, pretty girl…