In addition to their initial wild encounter, a series of charged proceeding meetings with the greaser gang makes Suse and Arthur question everything they thought they wanted in a relationship, and Kramer uses her characters as vessels in her effort to skewer gender roles and the socially-accepted concepts of masculinity and femininity. “The world of men is one of comparison and measurement,” Arthur utters at one point during the film, signaling his inner battles with gender expectations. “Am I enough of a man?” When asked about his thoughts on how the film approaches gender, Glusman says he finds it “pretty groovy.” “I think about male friends of mine who have a hard time talking about their feelings, or who are scared of being tender or vulnerable,” he says. “And I think that Amanda’s movie kind of dissects that attitude. She has her own story because I asked her, ‘what motivated you to write this?’ And she told me why she wanted to tell this story. But basically, we still have these sort of old-timey ideas of what a man and a woman are, and I think Amanda just takes that and sort of flips it upside down, and says, ‘Hey, these characters can act however they want and still love each other. They can still be together.”