Walk With Me

As a film, Walk With Me is about as interesting as its title. If this movie was a colour, it would be beige.

Amber has an ideal, if dull life. She has a nice husband named Ethan and a daughter named Emily. Then, Amber shocks the stable Ethan by asking for a divorce. While she goes through her divorce, Amber begins to find herself. And by find herself I mean she immediately finds a vibrant woman named Logan and starts dating her. However, dating during a divorce and as a parent with shared custody is rough. And new to the queer scene, Amber struggles with being open and proud about her relationship with another woman.

I’m just going to say it. All the characters in this movie are too emotionally intelligent. That’s it, that’s my problem with Walk With Me. This film is largely successful at being a model for good behaviour and communication. Amber and Ethan have a very amicable divorce and both sides communicate clearly and respectfully. Amber likewise deals with Emily’s emotional fallout from her parent’s divorce using almost note-perfect acknowledge of Emily’s feelings, offering cathartic alternatives and just generally being a good mom. Congratulations to all these characters. But it turns out, good communicators and emotionally intelligent adults don’t make for a particularly interesting story. Much of the conflict of the film is cut off at the knees by everyone being so damn understanding and respectful of one another.

Walk With Me also falls into my personal issue of being someone who has seen hundreds of WLW films. I do not think there is a single plot point, character or moment that’s wholly unique to Walk With Me. There was a spat of indie movies about wives and moms realizing their attraction to women in the 2000s and 2010s. And that’s not the only time period such stories exist either. Every topic that Walk With Me covers is things I’ve seen before, often in large chunks in other, previous WLW movies.

That being said, the average viewer hasn’t seen 700 WLW films. And for those people, this movie might provide gentle enjoyment and understanding. Wall With Me is a very kind movie because of the aforementioned emotional intelligence. It has a lot of empathy for its characters and their situations. I think especially for viewers going through a divorce or queer adults only recently discovering themselves, Walk With Me might speak to them and be reassuring it what it has to say. I just don’t belong to either of those groups. I’m in my own group of one. The group being guy who has seen 700+ lesbian movies.

Walk With Me is a kind and competent movie. And that’s all I can offer it. I found very little of the film unique or interesting. It’s a very regular sort of a movie, which doesn’t inspire great emotion in me personally. This is not the kind of movie I enjoy at this point in my life. I don’t think it stands out much from the pack of movies about divorced women who kiss other women. But I do applaud the empathy on display in the film even if such empathy contributes to it being a bit of a dull sit for me.

Overall rating: 5.2/10

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