had the movie playing for the first time in a while and forgot how fuckin Stressed rumi was lol mira was not playin
I know it's supposed to be a serious scene or w/e but I love how rumi just yeah-nah's the takedown song SHE had the idea for the day before the performance without explanation. Valid crashout for Zoemira
Also forgot how fast the pacing was haha like you can just feel the studio interference in some cases like in the variety show bit there was a set up for them to play games and then they just didn't? Like I dead ass thought my netflix jumped a minute ahead haha so much must have been left on the cutting room floor
but in a weird way i think I think the Mach 5 pacing actually helped out a lot, since it kept things going pretty fast (I can see why they'd do that for a family animation) and also it didn't really give the audience time to question the disparity between the tone/stakes. ie u see people's souls getting sucked out and missing persons reports etc and that naturally raises the question of what does getting ur soul stolen actually mean? Like are they straight up dying? There's that shot of jinu looking at the soul light things going to gwi-ma and is like oooh I'm conflicted, but wait he's watching people die?? But the movie just blasts right along so it doesn't get bogged down in the implications. Like hey dw here's a great song chill
and i think it absolutely was the right decision not to include any super overt romance between rumi and jinu like secret dates or a kiss or w/e because if that was the case the idol awards betrayal would read soooooo terrible lmao there would have been nothing they could have done to get him a semblance of satisfactory atonement for me. (And isn't it better to have a what could have been as opposed to a love lost for a change.)
Also I think I saw a deleted scene where celine says she killed rumis parents??? That would have been soooooo lame lol glad they cut that cliche
Anyway I really do stand by the less is more adage, i'd rather have a super lean tight movie. like there wasn't a scene that i thought oh this could have been cut or what's the point of this it was all very cause and effect
a bit more rambling under the cut
(tho i do think the big climax at the end wasn't %100 percent earned IMO. i'd say that as a stand alone movie I cant really consider Zoey and Mira having complete character arcs since i read that for Zoey the lie she believes is that "too much/not enough" ie A grade people pleaser caught between 2 identities has to prove her worth etc so when she's like "i thought my ideas and lyrics were weird but yall like them" "why did cover up the colours stuck inside my head" it doesn't really land for me bc was she covering up the colours? not really to me? and w Mira the lie she believes is that she's "highly aggressive short fused blunt etc" but i mean give me an example dog honestly she seemed pretty patient in the movie w all the shit rumi was pulling. and also if "let the jagged edges meet the light instead" is supposed to be the resolution it's kind of the same issue w Zoey's line since when did she cover up jagged edges? (if anything those lines mostly apply to rumi not Z&M). I mean i get what they're going for but it doesn't land %100 for me as is? Since when analysing text i don't like to infer too much u kno like you gotta look at was is presented (art history degree was a fkn trial sometimes i swear some of those readings were just rage bait).
But knowing there's a sequel coming it makes sense that not everyone's character arcs were %100 resolved ie more to work with. and even if there wasn't a sequel it's still an interesting note to end on ie not to have everything tied up open ended stories are just as interesting. But i doubt sony greenlit the sequel before the absolute bonkers streaming numbers came in so i do see how people can say that m and z were a bit underdeveloped. To be clear I'm not saying it was unsatisfying or anything.
(also i know that the lie the character believes / realisation of thematic truth is not the only framework to judge a character arc on but i feel like it was set up with the healer's office bit and the discussion before the idol awards etc etc)
And also writing is hard lol i cant imagine how hard it would be as a director to get ur vision out while complying with studio contraints/ stipulations.
so i think it's a good idea that they kept the movie pretty tight and condensed to as to not bite of more than they can chew u know
I will say i am glad they had the guts to kill jinu tho that was a fitting end, bc up until that very moment he was still reaping souls for gwi-ma like cmon. and with him leaving his family i think it would have made him more sympathetic if they showed something like the emperor threatening him or smth like you can assume/ suppose that leaving the palace or asking for them to come with etc would get them killed but again i think that it has to be made a bit more explicit. but that wasn't the case and he again, was reaping souls so i think it the release of death and a final selfless act was fitting
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