[press] Amadeus musical – Kim Jae Wook
Month: March 2018
– Can I really be… congratulated?
– You’ve worked harder than anyone else I know. You’ve run harder than anyone else. Of course, you deserve to be congratulated.
I think my favorite critique of AWIT (and what I was trying to passive-aggressively fight back against in my FB feed) is the people who have not even seen the movie yet losing their minds that the film has removed the Christian™ themes and replaced them with “social justice” and “familial love” and “new age spiritualism.” A young girl willing to sacrifice herself and who refuses to stop loving her brother in order to save him is SCANDALOUS, how can that possibly be true to L’Engle’s original Christian™ vision! All good™ Christians™ should avoid this film!
And I’m just like
People: What even was the point of Calvin.
Me: To become the new tween heartthrob because he had total respect for Meg’s intelligence, personality, family, and natural beauty, and was her cheerleader, giving her the extra push to trust in herself because he 100% believes in her. So basically behaving like most women sidekicks in films that have male leads.
Yo if your sole mission is to reblog everything in the AWIT tag and say “hey but ALL PEOPLE hate this movie because it’s NOT GOOD” then you’re being blocked without regret. Read the room, bro, you’re not wanted here.
Please go see “A Wrinkle In Time” because it’s getting slammed for being ‘too diverse’ and ‘too female’ and ‘too positive’ and all this other bullshit. It’s like these critic bros are trying to win misogynoir bingo. I want the movie to be a success and I want them to die mad.
Saw some hate and disappointment for AWIT on my FB feed from people who haven’t even seen the film yet and were only relying on a White Man Professional Film Critic™ to tell them what to think.
And I was just like
So of course I had to say something.
Haters gonna hate, but A Wrinkle In Time was like a $10 therapy session and it was all I could do not to spend half the film bawling my eyes out.
Also I need more glitter in my life.
My instinctive night owl self didn’t fall asleep until after 2am but then a loud noise woke me up around 5am and I couldn’t get back to sleep, so now I’m in the awkward “I want to go back to sleep but I only have an hour until I have to get up so I can make it to my appointments” state. Just gonna be sleepy today, I guess. Until I can take a nap this afternoon (or just go to bed super early).
The Obsessive Dilettante 