Excellent. I walked out of the screening physically chilled. Just the right amount of childhood nostalgia, slowly increasing dread and mania, explicit but nonetheless ambiguous queerness, and commentary on deep-seated patriarchal norms hurting all of us.
I was unsure at first if this would play out in the same way as so many other films about a schoolgirl who can't stop scowling with the exact same face Pauline made so many times in the beginning of the movie. Pleasantly, it…
hoooooooooooly cow I am learning how to animate asap. hope these animators were paid their weight in gold and more.
the writing and everything else was fantastic too, and all the jokes landed, but I was honestly too focused on the visuals to pay much attention to the details of stuff like the soundtrack. I liked the way the film opened with gwen. spot was an excellent and terrifying villain, and the way his visual design decayed over the course…
Jo reads as so aroace, and I think about what she said about being loved all the time. Her story with Laurie was so good and so painful to watch at the same time. Down to the details, the most aroace love story that wasn't technically an aroace love story among recent big films. I loved it up until the ending (which I now understand more after having read about the film, as someone who has not read the book)
