I love the movie unicorn store so much because not only is it brie larson and a really good movie but probably one of the very few movies that I can 100% relate to! Kit is such a cool character and I relate to her so much as someone who’s always been “different”. My brain doesn’t work the same way others do and at times my ideas can be very eccentric and I can be very childish.
But that’s why I love about it, it really puts a message of hope out there that, yes life is hard and yes you have to grow up but that doesn’t mean you have to stop being a kid, you can express yourself how you want and not everyone will be okay with that but you CAN find people who will be.
I think the that symbolism of the unicorn is that kit just wants someone, SOMETHING, that will love her for who she is! But she also needs to learn to love herself, she spends the whole movie doing what other people want her to do so that they will like her, EXCEPT for Virgil who shows her all of her art at the end and shows her who she really is, she doesn’t need to have a office job and she doesn’t need to do all these things just that the unicorn will love her, because she needs to love herself first.
She wants me this perfect best friend and it turns out she already has one, she just didn’t realize, so in the end she thanks the unicorn for helping her through her childhood and showing her unconditional support, but now she has someone who will do that for her, she doesn’t need to stop being a kid but she lets go of the unicorn because she doesn’t need it anymore, and I think that in the end the other lady who wants the unicorn will realize the same thing. Just like she did.
@starlady66 You should watch Unicorn Store, it’s directed by Brie Larson, and she also stars in it with Samuel L. Jackson, I made this in 2019 by tracing the poster for the movie.
Rewatched my favorite movie/comfort movie (Unicorn Store) again today as I do multiple times a year and I just need to talk about Virgil for a second. He is quite literally the man of all time. Not only is he played by Mamoudou Athie who’s fine as hell but he is the perfect love interest for an autistic coded girlie like Kit. He never treats her like she’s stupid. He never infantilizes her. He is incredibly patient and kind. He is protective of her. He helps her when she’s struggling with social cues. He genuinely likes her for who she is and not the masked version of herself. If you’re autistic and need to know what a green flag looks like please watch this movie I beg
Have you ever like… watched a really good movie and then for some reason completely forgot about its existence and then years later you discover the movie again and remember that you liked it but forgot everything else about it and so you rewatch it and basically get to relive the movie for the first time again?
Anyways, I fucking love Unicorn Store and if you have Netflix, please watch it 🩷🩷🩷
Okay so Hamish Linklater was only in "Unicorn Store" for like 5 minutes but he deserves a fucking Oscar for that "I wanted to be a figure skater but my parents wouldn't pay for the lessons" scene
I always say the character I relate to the most is mabel, and it’s only because no one in my life except my sister and mom, and that’s because I forced them to watch it with me multiple times, knows kit
Like Kit is literally the fictional version of me, no character has ever made me feel seen as much as she did. I act EXACTLY like her and like, my relationship with my mom and stuff is also the exact same😭