rabbitfish63

"Babygirl" is an extraordinary movie, all about the search for meaning, and the extension of compassion. The acting is jawdropping throughout, and especially in the scenes between Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson-such listening, sense of play, bravery. Every scene between them is a high wire act, and it's all about compassion and tenderness. Nicole Kidman's character doesn't know this is what she will find as she enters a dom/sub relationship with a younger man, but that is the case.

The movie is full of messy human emotion, of mistakes and regrets, but everything that happens needs to happen for everyone to grow, and for the central marriage to survive. All the components, including the relationship with Kidman's protegée and her older daughter are carefully placed pieces of the story, and the writer/director understands what she's doing at all times.

This movie is the antidote to the "50 Shades" movies. It is all about how our desires cannot be ignored, and that only in facing them and accepting them can individuals and relationships be healed.

We've only watched the first season so far, but we love it.

This show is extremely well structured, written, and edited. Every episode carries you along with great confidence. This is a show that is obviously aimed at kids, but we enjoyed it as well. Even when we were seeing things we are already familiar with, like the lifecycle of the monarch butterfly, the intimacy of the cameras, the details were all a revelation.

It is completely incomprehensible to me how people didn't enjoy Awkwafina's narration which was funny and sweet. The writers gave her some corny lines, and she pulled them off beautifully by not overselling.

I watched some footage of the actual Cassandro after we finished the movie, and it showed just how tame and bloodless this movie was. Why was Gael locked into this one bad haircut when Cassandro had great, grand hair?

This tameness also brings the storytelling down to a very banal level; the love story, the career rise-nothing felt like it had any real stakes. Only the relationship between Saúl and his mother raised this by-the-numbers biopic above the snooze-level.

I'm glad to have learned of this fascinating world of Lucha Libre and this interesting corner of queer culture, the Exoticas, but it could have been so much more fun.