
Bobby falls in love with Kalpana and asks her brother for her hand in marriage. However, when his grandmother falls ill, his best friend Prasad masquerades as his fiancée to fulfil her last wish.
A short film that begins with the language of romance but slowly reveals something far more unsettling beneath the surface.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
Meander, released in 2021, is a French gory horror film featuring a woman trapped in small spaces as she fights for her life, paralleling real pandemic life.
“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.