Turning Red (Movie)
The brand new Pixar movie, “turning red”, follows Mai, our main character who starts developing hormone changes. She starts to gain interest in boys and tries to hide it from her mother and her emotions are quite unstable and something that all of us have gone through. She unleashes a red panda due to the fact that she is starting puberty, as a metaphor for adolescence, and now she has to learn to control it.
The movie is extremely relatable, especially if you are a girl. Since everything occurs from a female perspective and it is all about finding your own identity as you go through puberty.
Undeniably this movie is for teenagers, however, the whole family can watch it together, since it includes lots of topics that they could afterwards discuss, from the importance of telling the truth to the dangers of keeping things that you should share with your parents.
Inventing Anna (TV Show)
Inventing Anna is definitely one of the best series of 2022. This series is about Anna Sorokin, played by Julia Garner. She posed as a German heiress woman under the name of Anna Delvey in New York City. She managed to trick many friends and important banks taking from them out thousands of dollars to live a luxury life before she was sentenced for grand larceny and fraud.
This is a show for those who like marvel; the effrontery, the style and the steel of nerves.
In the first seconds of the series, we get to know an ice-cold, brutal lady.
Who does not want to watch something like that?
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Book)
This book follows Lily Hu in china town in 1954. For a Chinese American like her, these were not fun times. On top of the fact that her father could be deported anytime despite having American citizenship, she is in a relationship with a woman. One night at a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club she met Kathleen Miller, and now they have to figure out how to live a normal life together.
This book is great, it doesn’t only deal with not being accepted, considering it’s the 50s, but it also depicts really well the constant fear of being deported from the perspective of a teenager. The representation is *chefs kiss*. It also includes the concept of found community with the support from people at the telegraph club.
Sing 2 (Movie)
Buster Moon had everything he ever wanted, his theater couldn’t be more successful, but right now, what he wants more than ever is to be considered for a show in Redshore City. He fails to impress the talent scout so he infiltrates the auditions. They flop big time, but they are accepted when moon messes up big time by telling them he can get the most famous rock star to join the show. Now they have to figure out a way to get him in the show while preparing an amazing performance.
Apart from this movie being extremely entertaining, it’s very fun that it has very popular songs to blast to while watching. But it also deals with the common topic of sacrificing your morals to make it big in the music industry. On top of that, the characters are very fun characters because it is accompanied by amazing animation and a marvelous cast.
Bibliography
Jennings, G. (n.d.). Sing (2016 American film). Wikipedia. Retrieved March 25, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_2#Plot
Lo, M. (n.d.). Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Goodreads. Retrieved March 25, 2022, from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35224992-last-night-at-the-telegraph-club