ohhh the yearning, and the repression. the moment when Ennis walks up the stairs in that cold all white house and finds his shirt in Jack’s closet is just 😭
and the real devastation is that the more I think about it, the more I realize the two of them are caught in a cycle that’s at least partly of their own making just via stubbornness and circumstances (privilege) but that neither of them can see out of. like they…
I wanted to like this SO bad but ultimately it was just the plot of Two Towers thrown into a blender with some girl bossery and a horror movie side plot?? Edoras is at risk of being attacked so they evacuate to Helm’s Deep and then things take a turn for the words, only for them to be saved by the exiled cousin returning at the 11th hour. like HELLO??
I did like Hera but she was just not enough…
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I was skeptical of how much hype this movie has been getting but it was INCREDIBLE and the theater kid in me was absolutely LIVING.
my one complaint is that the last 30 mins both felt too rushed and also had too many random interruptions with the guards - just give us Glinda and Elphaba singing! but Ariana was hilarious, Cynthia absolutely SLAYED (her lil extra riff in Defying Gravity is *chef kiss*!!), and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero had me…
an incredibly well-crafted and well-directed biopic as well as a treatise on politics and power. and also literally every 10 minutes I would turn to my friend and be like “is that so and so?” Casey Affleck? Scott Grimes? fucking Josh Peck??
