so good, and so perfectly paced. disagree with everyone saying the second act dragged, there wasn’t a minute that i wasn’t completely absorbed.
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Barbie 2023
The movie’s message felt so confused to me in the middle and last stretches. In terms of the feminism: I found it strange that the idea that reality/life is complicated and flawed, something that initially scares but then interests Barbie, was extended to include structures of oppression like patriarchy. It seemed to imply they are part of the flaws of a complicated human existence that one has to accept. Again, I know it’s not meant to be a high level…
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Promising Young Woman 2020
When I first watched this I remember really enjoying it, because I felt that it dealt with the all-encompassing destruction that male violence is capable of. I wonder now if martyring these characters was a weak choice. What should women take from that? And if the entire film is a condemnation of the complicity of these institutions in male violence, where does the ending fit in? It’s also strange that in a film oriented around male violence, Cassie is able…
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