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People only look at the wrong thing | Essay on "Turning Red 2022"

  You are only a teenager once in your life, and it is not the best part of your life. Always hormonal, face full of pimples. Weird things are happening to your body and you are not sure what's up and don't even get me started on the number of crushes you get at that age.  I loved being a teen but it was not as fun as movies make it to be. That's the subplot of the movie turning red by Domee Shi. 13-year old Mei Lee is born into a family bleed by spirits. She and all the women in her family before her bore a special power, and turned into giant red pandas upon exhibiting over the top emotion. The trailer of the movie did not hold me very excited, I presumed it to be another coming of age movie, but I forgot that it is Disney Pixar, and it's not just normal ever. My peak of interest arose after seeing at least 5 posts a day about how the movie is being in controversy for being showing pads and talking about menstruation.   Menstruation is not something spe...

Mommy Issues Lessons for ‘You’ Season 3: Bad Parents Yield Bad Kids.

When I finished ‘You’ season 2, I counted days backwards till the next season will be released. Not only did I follow P enn Badgley on every existing social media (not Joe Goldberg style),  I constantly checked updates for the show. I can not explain how excited I got when the teaser trailer was released.  There are so many reasons the show is very near to my heart, but the primary is, I love a good thriller/murder drama. A story of an obsessive, psychotic boyfriend that is not cringy in Wattpad style is the absolute definition of entertainment to me. An inner monologue is my favorite narrative style (looking at Patrick Batman).  Season 3 started with Joe and Love in their lovely suburban home in Madre Linda, far away from their past (the bodies they buried). It looks all normal till Joe goes back to his psychotic self and stalks his neighbor Natalie. The neighborhood friendship was at the cusp of an affair till psycho Joe's psycho wife kills Natalie, and the...