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Mar. 19th, 2024 01:28 am not to talk about kfp AGAIN, but i have a lot of thoughts and i need to write them down so they let me sleep.
i find it so incredibly frustrating watching people online consistently miss the point of the third movie. i think it gets a lot of undeserved hate for being the most lighthearted entry into the series, and a lot of that stuff gets easily dimissed as filler. but i think that's just... really missing the point.
a lot of the scenes with the pandas are undeniably comedic and funny, but they absolutely do serve a point to the plot! reconnecting with his heritage and culture, and bonding with his dad is important, and while i understand maybe wanting the movie to have less scenes of that, there's something really cathartic to me about watching a genocide survivor explore things he never got the chance to, and i'm just never going to fault the movie for simply allowing po a chance to experience pure joy and showing it to the audience in its fullest extent.
the movie also does have emotionally heavy and mature moments. li is a literal trauma survivor, and so much of his motivation in this movie is connected to his trauma. and there's some really touching stuff about parenting and the familial struggles relating to po as a an adopted child, and how his adoptive father deals with those issues.
there's some pretty clever stuff too about what genocide does to people, on a personal and cultural level, and it's all handled with so much respect and subtlety. maybe TOO much subtlety considering how much people missed it.
the way this movie thematically connects the previous two is also really clever and just good story telling all around. it understands it marks the end of a journey, and it chooses to make po look back at what he's learned in a really coherent way.
anyway, this movie is so sweet and well put together, it's so disheartening to see people rip it apart over what, in my opinion, boils down to bad media literacy and not anything super substantial.
i find it so incredibly frustrating watching people online consistently miss the point of the third movie. i think it gets a lot of undeserved hate for being the most lighthearted entry into the series, and a lot of that stuff gets easily dimissed as filler. but i think that's just... really missing the point.
a lot of the scenes with the pandas are undeniably comedic and funny, but they absolutely do serve a point to the plot! reconnecting with his heritage and culture, and bonding with his dad is important, and while i understand maybe wanting the movie to have less scenes of that, there's something really cathartic to me about watching a genocide survivor explore things he never got the chance to, and i'm just never going to fault the movie for simply allowing po a chance to experience pure joy and showing it to the audience in its fullest extent.
the movie also does have emotionally heavy and mature moments. li is a literal trauma survivor, and so much of his motivation in this movie is connected to his trauma. and there's some really touching stuff about parenting and the familial struggles relating to po as a an adopted child, and how his adoptive father deals with those issues.
there's some pretty clever stuff too about what genocide does to people, on a personal and cultural level, and it's all handled with so much respect and subtlety. maybe TOO much subtlety considering how much people missed it.
the way this movie thematically connects the previous two is also really clever and just good story telling all around. it understands it marks the end of a journey, and it chooses to make po look back at what he's learned in a really coherent way.
anyway, this movie is so sweet and well put together, it's so disheartening to see people rip it apart over what, in my opinion, boils down to bad media literacy and not anything super substantial.