they never let you stop being the black sheep. things might get better, they might get worse, but you're stuck this way, and time has ed to make it so it doesn't matter if it was your fault or not, this is just how things shook out, and you have to make the best of it. jonathan demme loves his characters so much, loves them more than most people would, loves their indignities and stand-offishness and nursed wounds, loves them…
the most literal-minded adaptation of a dungeon crawl sim, not really bothered by that when you have an evil wizard giving a flying suplex to a ninja. the kind of not-great-not-bad OVA that i would have watched at least twenty times on VHS. loved the youtube subtitles where they explained every spell that comes from the game this is based on, it was very helpful in understanding what was happening.
so alienated from the experience of lived trans identity that it gets many basic facts wrong, stuff that any trans person could tell you about (for one thing, emilia pérez wouldn't 'smell like a man' if she was on HRT, as hormones have a massive effect on body odor). but even disregarding that, this is yet another crash-esque panorama of trying to tackle every societal problem and then acting as if the mere effort of that attempt, rather than the…
god help us all.
these movies hope that if they crack enough semi-homophobic jokes at their own expense, if they give the manchildren enough corporate cameos, that somehow it wouldn't be exceedingly obvious that the only thing they are actually serious about is telling the lie that any of this stuff means something to begin with -- hey, look, it's the thing you , but not really, but sort of, but it's a reference, but it's a gag, but it's…
