Hands down, unironically, the loveliest movie I have seen in a while. Showed it to my youth group who were eye-rolly at first but were absolutely locked in within about 10 minutes.
I saw it and loved it as well. I'm trans; transitioned at 53, now 78. However, I've kept my WA state birth certificate as F since I don't deny that, despite my face fur and sort of male appearance, I do have XX chromosomes. It's also in solidarity with the experiences of women. Solidarity is no mere slogan to me--I'm an old labor leftist, trained in the late '60s by people who'd been CIO labor organizers in the 1930s. Like my logger grandfather the Wobbly, (I.W.W.) I'm a fan of Eugene V. Debs, the labor activist sent to prison during WWI for opposing the war. He said "I would not lead you into the Promised Land even if I could because if someone could lead you in, someone else would lead you out. Learn to use your heads as well as your hands."
That's it. Some of us workers can read, write, and think. We're not stupid, we're not sheep; two epithets used on us repeatedly so well-meaning nice liberals could explain away the last election. The same who never noticed decades of suffering in the Rust Belt and Appalachia. Or the well-documented deaths of despair. Besides, check the research on sheep intelligence. They're not stupid, either. Given all of this, the forgetting theme and sheep's decision to solve the mystery themselves really resonated with me. Yes, it's cute too. Can be and should be enjoyed for the {ahem} shear joy of it.
Hands down, unironically, the loveliest movie I have seen in a while. Showed it to my youth group who were eye-rolly at first but were absolutely locked in within about 10 minutes.
I saw it and loved it as well. I'm trans; transitioned at 53, now 78. However, I've kept my WA state birth certificate as F since I don't deny that, despite my face fur and sort of male appearance, I do have XX chromosomes. It's also in solidarity with the experiences of women. Solidarity is no mere slogan to me--I'm an old labor leftist, trained in the late '60s by people who'd been CIO labor organizers in the 1930s. Like my logger grandfather the Wobbly, (I.W.W.) I'm a fan of Eugene V. Debs, the labor activist sent to prison during WWI for opposing the war. He said "I would not lead you into the Promised Land even if I could because if someone could lead you in, someone else would lead you out. Learn to use your heads as well as your hands."
That's it. Some of us workers can read, write, and think. We're not stupid, we're not sheep; two epithets used on us repeatedly so well-meaning nice liberals could explain away the last election. The same who never noticed decades of suffering in the Rust Belt and Appalachia. Or the well-documented deaths of despair. Besides, check the research on sheep intelligence. They're not stupid, either. Given all of this, the forgetting theme and sheep's decision to solve the mystery themselves really resonated with me. Yes, it's cute too. Can be and should be enjoyed for the {ahem} shear joy of it.
Thanks for this insight that I read before seeing the movie today.
I guess I'm going to have to look that movie up. :-) This was a refreshing post (as usual).
I saw it with good friends & we all adored it. Lovely to see something positive & hopeful for a change!