literally why would louis give a shit about human life if hes a slave owner esp when he feels guilty about killing them too?? the show is so much better at louis' character
i didn't have super high hopes for the barbie movie going into complex feminism and political issues or anything considering its made by mattel but the right-wing and male reaction honestly had me really hopeful that i was wrong and that the barbie movie is trying to say something radical. and then i saw the movie and its just like. the most basic boring surface-level feminism movie ever. the most political thing they say is that women have it really rough under the patriarchy which like. yeah obviously. its also extremely nice to men like its clear that the kens turn bad not out of malice but misguidance and ryan gosling ken gets whole musical numbers and a whole arc about finding himself and getting to know ken w/o barbie. even the all-male leadership at mattel is depicted as well-meaning albeit buffoonish at times. so the fact that men and right wing audiences are claiming that the movie is anti-men or is this super radical film is just. incredibly sad to me. like even a movie this non-political with such surface-level corporate feminism is offensive to you? and even the leftists are acting like its revolutionary somehow. if your boyfriend didnt realize how bad women have it before seeing the fucking barbie movie you need to get a new boyfriend. idk. its just disappointing all around to see something as basic as "women have it rough" treated like its a revolutionary concept and it makes me genuinely despair for the future of women that the barbie movie is the most feminism some people have been exposed to. and even that little amount is too much for some people.
rewatching ferris bueller’s day off makes me realize how much I used to dismiss cameron growing up. oh he’s just the poor sick kid that ferris messes with when now it’s pretty obvious that cam is the only one who can get under ferris’ skin & make him break character. ferris uses people to further the plot of a script he controls, but cameron pushes back. he’ll go along with the schemes, he knows ferris so well that he knows when he’s been manipulated/guilted (best friends since fifth grade), but he’s also a willing participant. he improvises, and purposefully riles ferris up to make him lose his cool. in the kitchen when he makes ferris apologize for “hitting” him. in the taxi when he says he saw nothing interesting at all, and smiles, all while ferris is fuming crashes a parade & serenades him just to prove him wrong. “ferris bueller you’re my hero”. they love each other and challenge each other and it’s unfair to both of them to say it’s not a mutual relationship