Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
this is one of the best films over ever seen. it was just so hilarious, outrageous, and imaginative. transgender representation, found family, becoming more than one’s circumstances— i literally don’t have any more words to describe how good this shit was. i encourage you all to watch it and SOON too. ♡
i actually can’t believe i just saw what i saw omg.
firstly, the elements of sensuality and eroticism were so fucking welcome. and this is different from sexuality where we would be exposed to a person’s choice of when, who, and where to have sex. this movie used touch and proximity as a very powerful weapon in terms of the storytelling. i will say, while im here, that it never really answered itself— in terms of “what is this movie about?”…
i have 3 big problems with this film that i think could’ve been easy fixes or at least could’ve been something that could’ve been considered.
1) although i’m not too big a fan of bio-pics; i did think the timing of this movie was perfect. we’re a year out from the austin butler Elvis movie, and it would’ve been nice to have this one act as a foil. that, and i think that the lack of originality in telling this…
the movie of the year. i can’t thank this project enough for celebrating caribbean/black culture in a way that was FUN and COLORFUL and JOYFUL.
halle’s performance was so fucking inviting, engaging, and encouraging that i can’t even begin to imagine how powerful this must be for little black girls right now. im so happy that alan menken, overall, let her really sing these melodies in her pop-influenced voice. he also did her such a service with “For the First…