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Turning Red (2022)
Breaking Down Walls of Taboo Topics
I have been looking forward to this movie since I first saw the trailer. We watched it tonight on Disney Plus, and it exceeded expectations during family movie night!
1. It's set in 2002 and completely nails middle school culture of the early aughts. The slang ("da bomb!"), the awkward preteen fashion (down to the black fingernail polish), the boy band craze, burnt CDs, tomagotchis, passing notes during class, and the math teacher being a male coach wearing a track suit. It was all a flashback to my middle school days. 😅
2. It doesn't shy away from blunt references to a preteen girl starting her first period, which shouldn't be a taboo topic but somehow always has been. Good for them for breaking that wall. The whole movie is essentially an allegory for puberty.
3. As with Encanto and so many other millennial made kids' movies in the 2020s, overcoming generational trauma is a prevailing theme, and I'm ALWAYS here for that message.