Wicked

Round 2!! Let’s get into it! Ok so first things first, all the criticisms of the lighting are invalid. It’s perfect. It’s probably one of the best decisions they made tbh. I was obsessed with it upon rewatch so much so that I couldn’t imagine it looking any other way. We want Oz to look technicolor and enchanted, when in reality, there’s a dark underbelly. We see the magic and whimsy of it all, even with the shadows being how they are. There’s real grit and atmospheric story-telling  to the way they’ve done it. I applaud 👏🏻 . John M Chu deserves best direction at the Oscars. The sequences he crafted with Dancing Through Life, One Short Day, and Defying Gravity should be studied in schools! Cynthia and Ari are STARS! The emotion, the characterization. Everyone’s talking about it and for good reason! I understand now why people were holding space for Defying Gravity 🤭. The whole last 10 minutes of the movie will forever hold a space in me 🙂‍↕️. It’s fun, it’s camp, it’s even more magical upon rewatch!