Pre-Conception

Watching Mulan: 2 minutes into the movie I tear up looking at Fa Mulan chasing a chicken everywhere in their little cul de sac and up the roof, making a whole ordeal with her parents yelling after her, but she is smiling fresh. I don’t know where my obsession with the notion of “liberation” comes from. I say obsession because I have very strong feelings attached to the glimpses of the word or even to the nuanced portrayal of the concept, and don’t know why. So by definition, I am unreasonably emotional about it.  

WW84 was shit. Maybe I had no context. Still shit -- people without context should still be able to enjoy.

• Great idea -- main character woman can't get over death of one true ex lover but when push comes to shove (world doom) leaves love,  this time by choice; differentiated with most movies but undifferentiated with most movies starring female leads) 
• shit execution
  
  

Had a bit of a heroine-centric flight lol. Thought it might be uplifting but no, am left feeling more compulsively dissatisfied and than ever. C'mon. Black Panther was so great. What the fuck was Shang Chi.   

More hopeful about Mulan but I never finished it for the reasons of the following several posts I ran-wrote down until I tired myself to dry sleep in the plane.