"Moving" tells the story of Peacey and Nadav, two movers who struggle to make a living under their oppressive boss in the moving company. The two make a rash decision to steal the company's truck with all it's content and sell it, but when their boss discovers the plot conspired under his very nose, a brutal clash between them becomes inevitable.
In Saudi Arabia, a little girl (Wadjda) is told she can't have a bike because she's a girl. Wadjda struggles to obtain a bicycle to race her friend, Abdullah, due to the gender inequality and cultural norms of Saudi Arabia.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my reading will reveal, 'Nimona' could be interpreted as a transgender story.
In Tall Girl, Jodi learns to stand tall and find confidence within.
A young girl named Hailey Mays sings a country song that is named after the film's title.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
