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Sarah, 27. She/Her. chronic lover of 90s cinema. 🌻
Haven't been able to stop thinking about this one. Soul-stirringly beautiful animation. Those watercolor backgrounds are something luminous. Truly follows the traditional progression of a fairy tale or fable but with a heightened, intuitive understanding of the complex truths and darker undercurrents, especially the deteriorating psychological state of its heroine. The sins of patriarchy. The ending gutted me.
92/100
Cameron’s structural ingenuity and heartfelt sincerity coalesce into a timeless amalgamation of Hollywood’s past and future, combining melodramatic splendor with New Age technological advancement. History, romance, disaster; not intellectualized (or always historically accurate) but flawlessly engineered to provoke emotion arising from unimpeachable truths: the injustice of societal classicism; the difference between love and possession; how a life well-lived comes before anything else, including a enormous diamond weighing down your pocket. The result is one of the most endlessly watchable motion…