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: Althouse

"They?re progressive, positive young women, and they?re tragically boring, which is less the fault of their woke makeover than the film?s conviction that it?s incompatible with conflict or distinct personalities."

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Writes Alison Willmore in The Craft: Legacy Is Progressive, Positive, and Tragically Dull (New York Magazine) about a sequel to a 1996 movie that I don't know about you but I saw. The idea for both movies is 4 high school girls who do witchcraft. The old movie was about the personal flaws of the 4 characters and their interpersonal problems. In the new movie....
The witches in "The Craft: Legacy".. use their blossoming powers on behalf of the community... effacing slut-shaming graffiti from a locker and humiliating a homophobe by turning his jacket rainbow-colored. As their pièce de résistance, they use a spell to transform a sexually menacing bully named Timmy... into an emotionally open young man who holds forth about heteronormativity and how much he loves Princess Nokia ? not just for her music, but for her politics.... 
[In] an interview that writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones did with Vanity Fair... she explained... that [the 1996 movie was] ?about women whose power was too overwhelming for them to harness and was turned on each other.?...  [The new movie] is so reluctant to subject its characters to any stress that it consigns most of its major dramatic developments into its barely coherent last half hour, which is when a foe finally emerges.... 

Spoiler alert... 

... a knitwear-clad warlock Jordan Peterson... 

Willmore wants more of this villain and blames the director for wanting to protect viewers from conflict and stress. It's funny ? as if the movie is making an argument against movies. Why get yourself all upset about fictional characters? Just watch TikTok, why don't you. 

Here's some TikTok I thought was pretty funny... but it might stress you out if you're one of the millions of people who are swaddling and comforting Joe Biden, the man you are hoping will protect us from our enemies.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 29, 2020 (boomark / email).

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