
When K-mil told her family that she was a trans woman, they kicked her out of the house and she could only return on the condition that she stopped being who she wants to be. Every day she has to leave her house because she is only allowed to sleep there. In her hometown skate park she found a home, a safe place where she could meet her friends and be herself.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
Love, Simon (2018) based on the book “Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda” (by Becky Albertalli) is a teen LGBTQ+ rom-com with themes of longing to find others with similar struggles, and ultimately is a story of acceptance of identity from those around you, and most importantly, from yourself.
Rip Tide is a coming-of-age film that teaches viewers about finding yourself and reconnecting with surroundings.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.