Corpse Bride

she was so much more than just a bride - in fact, that was the thing keeping her from being able to move on. emily is a metaphor for how the things weaponised against women are so easily romanticised. the idea of marriage being used as a contract for gain rather than love shows that a woman's place in it is as often as a bargaining chip. in this case, it was being a bride that ended up getting her killed in the first place, and then unable to be free even in death (extremely unjust as women's lives are already so restricted, it's a cruel mockery to show how her death didn't change that) until death do us apart. seeing her hunger for love even past the expiry condition of a marriage really touched me. i want to be loved past death too. i'd want love to be a thing that transcends the veil of the living and the dead, so powerful that it seems as though there's hardly a gap between them. perfectly macabre aesthetic, as expected from tim burton. stunning character designs - emily is one of the prettiest women i've seen in film and i NEED victor. loved the coldness of the colour scheme, it really added to the chilly feeling of a place beyond the grave. ironically, there was more colour amongst the dead than the living which highlights the suffocating rigidity of a society such as the one portrayed. i enjoyed the reunion of people with their deceased loved ones. the last scene was beautiful. i hope emily found peace. i hope my victor finds me !!