Mars

combining christmas and horror 🙏🙏🙏 holy shit i did not expect the ending at all this may be my new favourite film also the girls were all so cool they didn’t deserve that ☹️

oh my gabe and natalie. next to normal is literally everything to me. also the entire cast is just so 🤏 pocket sized i love them all so bad. the soundtrack for this has been going platinum in my house for weeks and as it should because truly they all just have such incredible voices. i could genuinely rewatch this like 20 times a day.

this might actually be the worst movie i have ever seen. frankly it’s insulting to autistic people. autism speaks is a very incredibly harmful group that borders on conversion therapy and this is a very well known fact, it is incredibly tone deaf. this feels like bullying autistic people and not at all an attempt to highlight the struggles autistic people face. there are so many autistic actors out there who could have been cast in the role of music but instead sia chose to cast a neurotypical actor, how insulting. this is incredibly abelist i cannot believe i wasted my time watching it. i would give it 0 stars but that’s not an option.

this is a rewatch but i never logged it before. however, whilst this film will always be dear to me i fear i kinda understand the mostly low ratings watching it at 22 compared to 14 when it came out. i feel like the premise is still really good but it feels like it’s slightly lacking in some parts where things don’t quite make sense to an unenjoyable degree. “goddamnit janice” will always make me laugh, and i fear the cast are mainly what saves this movie. there is something so humorous to me about an 11 year old being like “hey mom kill our neighbour, here’s exactly how to do it”. i don’t know how i didn’t pick up on how bad the ending was when i was 14, but alas, i was 14 so i shall excuse that, it feels like one of those movies where you just know the ending was written in very limited time with absolutely no forethought whatsoever.