My brother just reminded me this existed and my brain was immediately flooded by the traumatic memories of watching the scene where they try and force him to have plastic surgery. This fucked me UP when I was 7 haha! I will now not rest until I find a way to watch it again as an adult
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005
Every time I watch this I'm viscerally transported to my mum driving me and my brother half an hour to the cinema to watch it, even though she was scared of driving in the dark. We laughed all the way home, quoting all the gags. In the weeks that followed, so much of the dialogue from this film entered our family lexicon, especially "ooh the bounce has gone out of his bungee" and "beware the moon!" No level of critical media analysis could diminish that level of nostalgia. Banger film, 10/10
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The Peanut Butter Falcon 2019
The Peanut Butter Falcon is the best film about disability I've ever seen. It honestly gives me so much hope for the future! Honest representation - 3D characterisation, honest about limits imposed by disability itself, honest about limits imposed by discrimination and society, honest about the reality of provisions for disabled people, honest about institutionalisation. Zak is such a full, rounded character; funny often but not the butt of the joke, with so much to offer the world, but also…
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Wuthering Heights 2011
I'll start with the things I liked about this:
- This is the first adaptation to get the landscape and atmosphere of the Yorkshire moors right - the mist, the cold, the brutality, the untethered beauty
- This is also the first adaptation I've ever seen that never strays into telling this as if it's a love story. This is a story of brutality and obsession, and they definitely show Heathcliff's obsession really well
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