ugh i love when u leave a movie feeling energized and just GOOD inside. this was campy, electric, romantic, and so well-casted, and i feel like the in-your-face, kind of obvious political/anti-capitalist messaging added to the humor of it.
and i love u roly poly elephant monsters.
the violence of beauty standards and maintaining your youth and literally wanting to rip off every inch of your skin and grotesquely contort yourself to achieve this is NOT subtle or quiet. it’s a jarring, dissociative, panic inducing experience that feels as dizzying and disorienting as every second of this movie does.
i loved it so much.
a spectacular collage of history and memory, truth and trauma, and ultimately, life. i couldn’t keep myself together watching this. it forces your heart open and to empty, just so that it can be filled again - we’re here to bare witness.
