#even if you do believe that shes functionally immortal and wouldn't have actually properly died

[autumn-girl-17]

You know this moment right here had me absolutely balling when I watched the movie, but now actually watching this in clips and really seeing it is heartbreaking and I need to talk about it.

The way she had just given in to everything everyone thought she was, and turned into this huge creature. The embodiment of everything people believed her to be and just started marching through the city taking attack after attack like it was nothing. And on my first watch though I thought she'd decided to give in and become the monster they all saw her as.

It wasn't until the quote from earlier in the movie that I realized what was actually happening and I was kinda in shock while desperately praying from the moment Bal caught up with her.

And then he does and oh that moment made me cry so hard, and when she shifts back..

Firstly just her appearance alone says so much. The ash and scratches and bruises COULD be passed of as residue from the attacks, but she's not wearing actual proper materials, she could have come back the way she normally looks. But she didn't, she came back looking like she probably felt.

And the look on Nimona's face when she looks up at Ballister, it's like, she looks completely shattered, and the way she just kinda stumbles forward like shes struggling to even walk, and the way she almost seems to reach out like she's unconsciously reaching for some sort of comfort, even as she's also about to literally collapse in the process.

But in the time it takes her to move even a step Bal's swooped in and taken hold of her shoulders to stop her from falling and HE'S the one who pulls her into the hug, who wraps her up in his arms and just holds her there until she eventually hugs back.

And then they just stay there, completely oblivious to the fact that they're plastered all over the city and everyone is watching as the "Monster" they're all terrified of breaks down like the terrified lonely traumatized Kid she is in the arms of the one person who reached out just in time.

I've seen a lot of movies, and a lot of climaxes, but this was probably one of the most heartbreaking third movie acts that I've ever watched.

Because even after everything Nimona, who's spent most of her life being hated by these people who built an entire belief system on wanting to Kill her, was still willing to save them from the people who claimed to be protecting them.

God this movie just, it absolutely kills me and I'm so glad that Nimona came back in the end because this Kid deserves a chance to be happy.

NIMONA 2023, dir. Nick Bruno & Troy Quane