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“The Runaways” is about the rise and fall of one of punk rock’s most famous personalities, Joan Jett.
“The Runaways” illustrates the battle women faced as sex objects in the rock ‘n’ roll industry during the 1970s in a surprisingly authentic manner through the perspectives of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.
The main character is Joan Jett, played by Kristen Stewart.
Currie, played by Dakota Fanning, takes the spotlight.
Currie is invited to join the band by Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) because she has, in his words, “The look on your face that says, ‘I can kick the shit out of the truck driver.’”
From that point on, Currie, only 15, is begins to lose her innocence and turns into a hard, badass girl singing about sex.
As Fowley rallies the band during a practice, she screams, “I want an orgasm.” Sex is the product, and Currie sells it.
In this film, Stewart truly resembles Jett in her demeanor, facial structure and as her attitude. However, her actions serve as the backbone for her performance.
She squirts vodka in her mouth with a squirt gun, lays by the pool in her aviators and creates her own clothes in appreciation for the Sex Pistols.
Through their adventure to stardom, The Runaways are faced with experimentations in both drugs and sexuality.
That brings us to the part many people have been waiting for – the intimate kiss between Jett and Currie.
The chemistry and sexual tension between the two is only deteriorated into a static action through the fact that these are two very young girls.
The film makes several references to Jett’s bisexuality, an important aspect of the singer’s image.
Somewhat unrealistically, however, “The Runaways” does not focus on the backlash her bisexuality could have receieved from the general public in the ‘70s.
Yet, the movie did successfully portray the widespread sexual experimentation occuring in the rock scene at the time.
The young girls are instructed to sell their sexuality and take it back, be tough girls in a man’s world.
All in all, the film provides beautiful imagery matched with the realism of the 1970s punk rock era.
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