Being an immigrant, this is one of my favorite immigrant films. Fueled by a dream, and rescued by the kindness nurtured in others. The world can learn a lot from this bear. Especially today.

It might make you feel uncomfortable, it might take you to strange new places, it might make you sad and it might make your life much, much harder. But if good people are willing to fight for what is right, things can always get better. Don’t give up. Your voice matters. Use it.

Love,
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First half is a delightful and youthful perspective of historically European immigrant experience, leveraging all hope to cross the world in search of opportunity, and reframing each new misery as one step closer to the promise of prosperity barely out of reach. Second half is a silly Disney cartoon with zero real-world priorities, and that’s just really unfortunate 😞

Can you imagine living in that gorgeous, sprawling apartment, and still having to do laundry in the basement?!

Ok seriously this movie freaked me the eff out. That scrabble scene had me hiding under the blanket just waiting for the letters to spell SATAN SIXSIXSIX 🙈

Mulan (1998): girls can do anything boys can do.

Mulan (2020): girls are superhuman witches.

Working on this last year was a lot of fun. Watching it was work.