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copperbadge:
banesidhe replied to your post: madamovary replied to your post “Me, walking…
Ok so wait, what’s wrong with You’ve Got Mail? (You knew someone was gonna ask.)
EVERYTHING.
You’ve Got Mail is the AOL-sponsored story of a woman who is constantly, throughout the entire movie, gaslit by the CEO of a giant corporation which is deliberately bankrupting her small business. He literally shows up at her home while she’s sick and harasses her into loving him. At the end of the movie she shutters her independent children’s bookstore, the dream of her life, and walks into the big box store that drove her to abandon it. But it’s okay, because children are still reading in the big box store where everyone earns minimum wage and has no health benefits?
It is a monstrous piece of propaganda predicated on the worst characteristics of the romantic comedy genre. It’s a stupid story poorly written because in order to advance its agenda THE BAD GUY WINS.
In any just universe, Tom Hanks would die of shame, leave Meg Ryan his corporate empire, and have to watch from Hell as she dismantles it and gives away every book in every bookstore to homeless shelters and underfunded elementary schools.
Oh, how I hate this movie.
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copperbadge:
banesidhe replied to your post: madamovary replied to your post “Me, walking…
Ok so wait, what’s wrong with You’ve Got Mail? (You knew someone was gonna ask.)
EVERYTHING.
You’ve Got Mail is the AOL-sponsored story of a woman who is constantly, throughout the entire movie, gaslit by the CEO of a giant corporation which is deliberately bankrupting her small business. He literally shows up at her home while she’s sick and harasses her into loving him. At the end of the movie she shutters her independent children’s bookstore, the dream of her life, and walks into the big box store that drove her to abandon it. But it’s okay, because children are still reading in the big box store where everyone earns minimum wage and has no health benefits?
It is a monstrous piece of propaganda predicated on the worst characteristics of the romantic comedy genre. It’s a stupid story poorly written because in order to advance its agenda THE BAD GUY WINS.
In any just universe, Tom Hanks would die of shame, leave Meg Ryan his corporate empire, and have to watch from Hell as she dismantles it and gives away every book in every bookstore to homeless shelters and underfunded elementary schools.
Oh, how I hate this movie.
(Your picture was not posted)
