• Laura's emotional journey from the abandoned woman accepting everything life and a shitty guy throw her way to finally letting her rage out and escalating to that fabulous final number?
• The eventual Jackie & Laura alliance!!! The way the movie plays with our expectations to cast the pretty blonde bombshell as the interloper stealing Laura's career and her ex only to reveal she had no idea about anything and actually felt uncomfortable with Jacob's behaviour was perfect. And the fact that she so is ready to scheme with Laura and give her back the spotlight so he can get what he deserves is heart-warming.
• This movie said "we support women's rights but more importantly we support women's wrongs" with its whole chest
and I'm here for that.
• The focus on sexuality and how it can intersect with rage and how confusing it can be to be a woman/AFAB forced to navigate the society's expectations for how you're supposed to behave. The contraditions of being told to fight for yourself so people don't call you a doormat but not hard enough lest people call you a bitch.
• The reveal of Jacob and Maizie's betrayal and how the aftermath was filmed and scored is chef's kiss.
• The cool "feminist" dude making it big thanks to the uncredited work of a woman as so many "supportive" men have before? Bringing us back to all the brilliant women who "assisted" the great thinkers of our civilisation and sometimes did most of the work but never got the credit they deserved.
• The movie establishing right off the bat that Jacob abandoned Laura in the worst time of her life because he couldn't support her for a year, to later underscore that what he couldn't do for a year she did for him for five?!
• We already hate him AND THEN we find out he and Maizie have been sleeping together even before he broke up with Laura in a double betrayal? Leavung her to reckon with the fact that all this time she had neither a loyal partner nor a trusted friend?
• AND THEN!! He cut Laura out of the musical SHE HELPED DEVELOP, cast an actress that doesn't seem to have a musical theathre background but rather a TV career but she's generating a lot of buzz right now.
• Jacob off-handedly mentioning Maizie got a support role despite not
auditioning "because she's making a name for herself", then Laura wondering if sleeping with him is the prerequisite to get a role and missing by assuming it's Jackie but finally the movie reveals actually it's been Maizie? Implying Laura was right about the casting criteria just wrong about the target without spelling it out for us??
• And I'm not even touching on how well crafter the monster's character and his and Laura's romance is. The beast with a thorn in its paw, the monstrous part of Laura smarting from being shut away (in the closet of all places!!!). Laura learning to appreciate the Monster and, by extension, the ugly, angry parts of herself.
• The bloody culmination being cut in such a way we discover what exactly happened as Laura sings the
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