The Shape of Water having “too happy an ending” is ridiculous.
You don’t care about my opinion, and I get that. But wanting some sort of logical, down-to-earth ending in this fairytale is so… mind-boggling. Why can’t it be happy? Why can’t the heroes prevail? Why can’t unconditional love actually power characters through to a better life?
For God’s sake, this was a violent and dark fantasy film – a lot of terrible shit happens in this movie sans a less sweet ending.
I’m just – this is the same problem I have with people that believe Pan’s Labyrinth had an ending that was absolutely sad and bleak, because Ofelia getting what she wanted at last was too far-fetched and just not as realistic – that it somehow forwent the potential that this already dark film apparently had to, what? Be even more depressing?
Why can’t we just accept something is happy because it’s happy? So what if others mock you for it or you feel vulnerable and like you could be blindsided for believing in something wonderful and fulfilling.
I can’t believe it, but get over the fact that these works of fiction aren’t bittersweet or heartbreaking the whole way through. Happy endings can be happy.
Two year old idea I finally got done. :’) I’d planned it for May, because mermay, but work got in the way, and then I hoped to do it in June but nope. Ah well, at least it’s done.
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the fact that community colleges are seen as less valid and for “stupid” people is a result of classism and in this essay I will-
ppl in the tags saying that it’s “genuinely a lesser tier of education because people go there for trades and nursing and thats about it” are just proving that its classism. bc a) no thats absolutely not correct. a good chunk of people that go to community colleges do so to knock out their gen eds at a lower price than they’d be if they went to a four year, then transfer to a four year. and more importantly b) trade professions are not lesser than other professions that take higher degrees. people who go into things that take associates degrees are not “stupid”.
if you think ppl who are too poor to attend a four year university for all four years, or that ppl who are too poor to/don’t want to get their bachelor’s/master’s/doctorate are “stupid” then i have news for you:
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