#endless amounts of unique characters with many female & queer coded side characters who would have been men in all other media

[corvidaequeer]

Shout out to the Sugeon in The Sea Beast (2022) -who was so insignificant that he didn't even have a name, had 5 minutes of screentime & maybe 3-4 lines, & he doesn't even have a single picture of him that I can find.- gotta be one genders & characters.

#the sea beast #tsb #tsb surgeon #personal review on the move: #wonderful & timely message about #the tragedy of perpetuating a needless war #& how history is written to benefit those in power by lying & pitting living things against eachother #& how the individual people lost to war are not the ones at fault for being deceived into fight the wealthy's wars #absolutely breathtaking animation & brilliantly color scheme #endless amounts of unique characters with many female & queer coded side characters who would have been men in all other media #no needless romantic side plot #largely (not all) fleshed out characters with believable backstories & motivations #good overall plot #...& then there's the execution of all of those wonderful things... #the pace of the movie feels both way too rushed & agonizingly slow #the introduction of the evil witch character halfway through the movie was confusing & anticlimactic #captain crow's decent into villainhood felt too sudden & rash to turn against his beloved adopted son #but none the less captain crow as a villain was an excellent choice none the less #a ridged white man stuck in his ways w/ unearned selfrighteousness & lust for 'revenge' is certainly a mirror of the villains of real life #as if the loss of his eye from a creature defending herself is equivalent to him intentionally committing genocide qualifies as revenge #as well as the villian of a pompous extraordinarily wealthy political power who uses said wealth & power to gain more- #-by sending the civilians to fight a war on their behalf so that they may reap all of the benefits & none of the risks #the fact that it was a king & queen is especially enjoyable that they are the bad guys in different ways from start to finish #i love Maisie Brumble but the amount of speaches she gives in such a short amount of time feels excessive. her strong will & level headed- #-speaches would have be much better suited (along with the rest of the movie) as a limited tv show or a 3+ part hour long specials #that would have given this wonderful little girl more time to show her plucky determination & unimaginable compassion & utter joy for life- #in other matters- while not a bad thing(especially for a children's movie) the message of the story was very plainly said allowed which is- #-good for children but leaves something to be desided if intended for a broader age range audience #again the outspocken message would've played better had the movie been longer & broken up so we could really WATCH more of the characters- #-actually learning the lessons over a longr period of time instead of a short period of self-reflection& analysis &a plainly spoken message