Dao came to live with her grandfather after her father went bankrupt, but her cousins who lived in the same house did not particularly like her, so she left for Bangkok, hopefully to find some work there. In Bangkok, she met a taxi driver whom she had helped once, they get along very well, he even found her a job in a women clothes designing store. When he asked her to marry him, she didn’t refuse but want him to wait until he has saved enough money to start a family. One day she was taken to a birthday party of a young millionaire, at the party she soon learned that her taxi driver actually is that young millionaire.
I can say without question, that this is the first movie I’ve ever seen where art imitates life so much that I could 100% identify with it on a personal level. The predominately Black cast of characters are people with hopes, dreams, fears, and ambitions.
Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.
For the entirety of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion remains in full control of both her body and her personality, a rarity for female characters at the time of the film’s release. She’s granted depth with personal demons from her past and emotional vulnerability when the situation deems it appropriate for her to grow alongside Indy. She avidly rejects the notion of being anything other than a sassy, humane rebel, and Indy’s equal in every way. This she does while still maintaining her femininity.
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When you think of the horror genre, the LGBTQ+ community is probably one of the last things you think of. However, horror is much more queer-coded than you may think.
