Dumplin’
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Who else disliked the main character?
The movie was entertaining but I felt like Netflix could've done better. They made Stranger Things for pete sake!
It had a very compelling storyline, a plus-sized teenager that goes by Willowdean, unfortunately Dumplin’ by her mother, decided to join the towns beauty pageant. She said it was in support of her dead aunt, who was also plus-sized that never got the nerve to join, however throughout the movie it just felt like she was doing to spite her mother.
She just seemed to have some undeserving hate for her mother. Her mother was constantly working and helping girls with the beauty pageant that she didn't have time for her daughter, Willowdean. Her Aunt was the one she spent most of her time with, but unfortunately she died before the movie took place and they never really got into how she died.
The reason why the main character’s so hated was because she’s just so “woe is me,” and nobody understood her the way her Aunt did. She never really gave her mother a chance to understand nor did she try to understand her mother.
She basically accused her mother of not loving her own sister.
At the end, the mother and daughter both begin to understand each other.
I’d give the movie 2 stars but 5 stars for the moral, which was that everyone is beautiful no matter what their size is.
