(NEW PODCAST) Going In Raw Episode 1 - NIMONA

[SPOILERS] apologies for the oncoming block of text but I have so much to say about this movie because Lord it is so bloody good, must have seen it about eight times already. I very much agree with you James, they should have made it 2hours if they had the means. As a trans person, first seeing this movie in one of Jessie Genders videos and then watching it was like a breath of fresh air. To see something that is so intrinsically queer from the very fabric of its creation, instead of being something that is tacked on for two seconds, has no further plot or character relevance, and can be edited out for conservative country viewing felt like such a relief. The impact of just Ballister existing as a gay man with a genderfluid shapeshifter sidekick on screen, unapologetically, just. so good. Something Jessie Gender mentioned was that the *emotional climax* of the movie is *attempted suicide*. I rarely cry at movies but that plot point just hit so so incredibly hard; trans people know intimately that feeling, I feel (last I checked the stats are under 50% of trans people have attempted suicide and the life expectancy is something like 36?), so to see it not necessarily explored but shown on screen was just. I have no words how seen and how much it was a "Look! this is how it's like!!" that moment was. RE: Gloreth turning against Nimona that first time: she doesn't think Nimona has anything wrong with her until the adults tell her there is! She never intrinsically/overtly hated Nimona when it was just them two, but once the broader society got involved, she had no problem catching onto the status quo(?). Something to be read into ig. The very last scene where Nimona turns into a pink bird and there's the tapestry with Gloreth on the left and the monster on the right, and Nimona is the pink light moving from Gloreth's side *at the monster* while she's heading at the Director is probably one of my favourite moments of idk what you would call it, allegory? Imagery? Metaphor? Mandatory appreciation for the one knight who got bitten by the otter and his friend infodumping on them. Brilliant gag. Something I didn't clock until like the third or fourth rewatch was that the rampage Nimona does in the Institute and destroys all the statues and "thousand years of history" wasn't just an action sequence to break him out, it was also visually/whats the word, allegorically? necessary to show the break down of the thousand years of status quo to move forward as a society! Very nice touch. Just. A very good movie.

Laughing at the cheese thing. My roommate (who is very not rich) is offended that my favorite cheese is chedder.

Axil Derk

riz ahmed has less work than he could bc of his vocal pro-palestinean position.