Okay, she gives you a look and when you see the look, you make a move.

I’ll see you in a couple years

Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu vs. The Half of It (2020) dir. Alice Wu

Deep down, I probably knew the truth.

Endings are tricky because we expect answers. Fifteen years ago, with my first film Saving Face, I got one recurring question: “Is this ending… too happy?” At the time, as much as I saw the truth in it for my characters, I confessed to not knowing if that happy ending could be expected in real life; but as a queer woman, I wanted - needed - to see it in order to believe it could happen for me. Now with The Half Of It I’m regularly peppered with questions over whether certain characters end up together in an ever-pointed crescendo toward “But is the ending happy?” (Ha!) My honest answer is that the point of the film isn’t about who ends up with whom. It’s about three people who collide in a moment-in-time before going their separate ways, each now holding the piece of themselves that allows them to become the person they are meant to be. The end of the film is each of their beginnings. And for my characters, I can think of no happier ending. - Alice Wu

1x06 // 1x11

Penelope breaking up with Josie so she learns to endure pain and become stronger because of it and then constantly trying to infuse her with the strength to participate, be a leader, and do things for herself in hopes that she’ll be able to overpower Lizzie’s already dominant personality is so fucking…powerful. Like wow. She did it in ways that came off as shallow but really she was just a woman madly in love with limited time to save the one person who managed to steal her heart???? I’m dying????

#same energy

#same energy

“You know, for weeks, I had been hoping that you would give me one reason to stay, instead, you gave me a thousand reasons to go.”

Lily James and Alicia Vikander in Comic Relief’s Four Weddings and a Funeral special

one day… you will understand why I did everything I did.

“I think someone has an eye out for you…”