Thank you so very, very much for this. Yes, I most certainly will try libraries, although frankly, I don't know if any piece of cinema can equal the grace and insight of your storytelling of this. I just love it.
What it reads most like is a version of Beauty and the Beast in which each of the lovers takes both parts in turn and the story plays fair with them. --Yes: yes I can very much see this in your telling.
I love your storytelling, and also your thoughts on the ending, on the magic/not magic, on how that avoids ableism. Oh, pretty much everything.
One note:
she carries herself with a flinching consciousness of the space she occupies --so well said. I heard a line in a video of a poetry slam that this reminds me of:
"This is for the ones told, 'Speak only when you are spoken to,' And then are never spoken to" (Source--it was mnfaure that put me onto it)
the film never, not once, claims that love fixes broken people. All it underscores is the importance of loving people for who they are, not who they used to be or who you hope they'll turn into. --Amen
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What it reads most like is a version of Beauty and the Beast in which each of the lovers takes both parts in turn and the story plays fair with them. --Yes: yes I can very much see this in your telling.
I love your storytelling, and also your thoughts on the ending, on the magic/not magic, on how that avoids ableism. Oh, pretty much everything.
One note:
she carries herself with a flinching consciousness of the space she occupies --so well said. I heard a line in a video of a poetry slam that this reminds me of:
"This is for the ones told, 'Speak only when you are spoken to,'
And then are never spoken to" (Source--it was
the film never, not once, claims that love fixes broken people. All it underscores is the importance of loving people for who they are, not who they used to be or who you hope they'll turn into. --Amen