Imaginary

cabo verde is just a tiny little nation off the coast of west africa, with a population just shy of the city of detroit. they’re a nation mostly forgotten by the world, made of two volcanic islands. a people who live mostly peaceful, unremarkable lives.

when they qualified for the world cup, literally no one knew who they were, let alone where. and then they held spain to a draw.

most people said it was a fluke, a bad showing by spain and a stroke of luck for them combined, because no way in hell can a 40 year old goalie stop lamine yamal, right?

and then, lightning struck twice.

they did that with uruguay, holding them to 2-2. uruguay, former multiple world champions. over a remarkable run in an already remarkable world cup, cabo verde came in second in a group with spain, uruguay and saudi arabia.  

now, they hold lionel messi’s argentina to the very edge of their sanity, making them work over 3 hours to earn this victory. three hours of relentless defense, some of the best goalkeeping i’ve ever seen from a man who did not pick up those gloves until his 20s, and a team unshaken by the giants they were facing.

they lost, yes, but they lost 3-2 to lionel messi’s argentina, the same team that won the previous world cup in a journey worthy of a fairytale of its own. they say that miracles don’t happen - and they don’t, because this isn’t a miracle.

Gleb’s conflict is so much more interesting (and less disgusting) if it’s about his father’s actions during the revolution instead of a romantic/sexual attachment to this young woman he doesn’t know. His father is implied to have participated in the assassination of the Romanovs, and afterward is so upset with his own actions that he ends his life. Gleb grows up thinking that his father did the right thing and was a heroic figure, but then he meets a woman who seems to believe she’s one of the children his father was said to have killed. She becomes a way to honor his father’s memory, but it’s up for him to decide if that’s by killing her or letting her go free. Either he finishes his father’s task or lets him rest easy by letting one of the grown up children escape.

"Why can't we have we have a female-centric movie without a love story for a change?! Why does the heroine always have to hook up with a man in the end?!"

It sounds as if they don't know about Elsa, or Merida, or Moana, or Raya, or Asha, or...

Or more egregious: "Why can't Jessie and Buzz just be friends? There was never any hint of romance between them in the previous movies!"

Um, did these people not see Toy Story 3, or the end of Toy Story 2 for that matter?

I have felt maternal about bonnie since her debut in toy story 3 and her crying in the early scenes of toy story 4 always makes me cry too. and I knew that scene with her “friends” and the lilypad in 5 was coming bc tom hanks actually spoke about it and said how upsetting it is, and goodness was he right. had me crying and straight up wanting to fight some animated kids for this poor child. her little face made me so sad :( i think I relate to her a lot and see a lot of especially my child self in her.