Turning Red is in theatres along with Kitbull! This is Turning Red's director Domee Shi's Instagram post about it:
You can finally watch #disney #pixar ‘s #turningred in theaters! The music, the colours, the scale, the ANIMATION all hit different on the big screen. And for the first time in theatres you can watch the heartwarming, beautiful, hand drawn Oscar-nominated short film #kitbull Also, Happy New Year! Have you called your mom yet??! 🐲🐼❤️
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Turning Red - Movie of the Year (So Far)
Picture this: 2002… the year Ratchet & Clank, Girls Aloud and the VBirds (An animated four-piece British girl group consists of the following members: Boom, Bling, D:Lin and Wow. I remember Boom being my favourite out of all of the members in the band. “Virtuality” is featured in Dancing Stage Fever) first graced us with their presence. It’s a coincidence Ratchet & Clank and Girls Aloud kinda…
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Happy birthday to Domee Shi.
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Title: Turning Red
Rating: PG
Director: Domee Shi
Cast: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, Lori Tan Chinn, Mia Tagano, Sherry Cola, Lillian Lim, James Hong, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O’Connell, Topher Ngo, Grayson Villanueva, Josh Levi
Release year: 2022
Genres: fantasy, comedy, family
Blurb: 13-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager...with a twist: when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.
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so, I’m rewatching Turning Red. And I’ve realized what about it resonated with me so much
Because,, I don’t at all relate to womanhood or girlhood (im a trans man) so I wasn’t sure what it was. BUT THEN I REALIZED. It’s the fucking red panda-
It’s pretty obvious that it’s an allegory for periods, I know how much that representation means to a lot of people. So this isn’t me coming here to say ““uM, aCtuAlLy tHaTs nOt wHaT tHeY mEaNt”
But I think *another* way you can interpret it is generational trauma, specifically mental health issues
Think about it, in circumstances where your ancestors *have* to be strong and vigilant, you adapt. But as times change, the circumstances changes but this vigilant mode that was ingrained for survival stays the same. Which passes on, again, and again
Where this is personal to ME. Is as I went through puberty, I inherited my mom’s anxiety. I was always on edge, I felt like anything would send me into an anxiety attack, and nobody knew what the fuck to do with me
And it wasn’t until the end, where Mei realizes that instead of trying to *fight* with her panda, or try to repress it, banish it. She accepts it as part of her being that she has to make room for to feel
That is SO powerful. As Mei-Mei tries to break the cycle, Ming is confronted with HER anxiety (her panda) that she’s repressed for so long. Which she reconciles with Mei for passing that down to her. And by the end, her panda is in a TOMOGACHIIII, WHICH MEANS SHES TENDING TO IT NOW
It’s touched me so much for that reason. I fucking love this movie, I love it so much. Fuck people who say it’s “too niche”, because I think everybody I’ve met who’s watched this resonated with it in some way. And that’s what a good coming of age movie does
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