The Craft is the dark underside of the 90’s Clueless hype. It’s edgy supernatural teens before Twilight came along and made everyone expressionless, bloodless, and glittery. It’s Mean Girls with tarot cards. It’s the grit of real anxieties paired with the fantasy of unlimited power. It’s leather and lipstick and bad girl shit. Get in loser, we’re going to call the corners.
Read More
The Shape of Water is about a person who discovers their true self and strives to live that truth despite the pressure of society and its active, literal, persecution of their lifestyle.
See? Real quick.
The metaphor isn’t the problem. What was problematic, for me - at first - was the execution.
A short way to go about mainstreaming my initial complaint is to say: it wasn’t horny enough for me.
Read More
