There's a movie I really really want to research and write, but then I'll have to go into a rabbit hole about script writing and such, and I'll never climb out.
The Godfather Part II (1974)
In terms of camera, lighting, cinematography, composition, production design, costume, storytelling, writing and acting, it's flawless. You could write a dissertation about this scene alone.
'My offer is this... nothing.'
I definitely scared myself the day I told my child “never tell anyone outside the family what you’re thinking,” it was the first time a Godfatherism slipped into my parenting😭
none of my thoughts about this are easily condensable, but…I think it’s important to decide who the enemy is and whether you can apply the singular focus to do more than your enemy will do to win that fight.
I don’t think pointing the fight inwards is the way, in this instance.
I'd actually argue it isn't marriage, but halting the communal shouldering*** of men that would have the most powerful effect
The real power they hold is in walking this earth wholly unprepared for it because they know some woman, *any* woman will show up and care