Quote:
"While [Mary] Harron's approach to same-sex attraction in [The Moth Diaries] may be foggy, one thing the film does make clear is how this desire is antithetical to the heteronormative world of perfection that Rebecca subscribes to. This becomes especially evident in the final removal of both sources and stressors of Rebecca's same-sex desire. When Rebecca seems freed at the end, one cannot help but wonder if it is really her repressed desire that was quelled by the flames."
-- Brittany Caroline Speller

Source:
Speller, Brittany Caroline. "'And then I met Lucy': Perfection, Same-Sex Desire, and Social Control in Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries." In ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, edited by Kyle Barrett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (p. 103)