wig but like... not the wig i ordered.

what an incredibly fun watch. despite what many reviewers on here and elsewhere are saying (*cough* MEN), it's not necessarily derivative and it doesn't try to be the "girl power" version of anything, it just delivers a story that's feminine, bawdy, witty, sweet, and inclusive all at once.

Watching this again, i just keep thinking about something Maggie Gyllenhaal said when i saw her speak at TIFF - which is that this movie is an expression of something purely feminine that we don't see very often depicted onscreen. She said that it explores the consequences of starving a brilliant and vibrant woman’s mind in a very Virginia Woolf-esque way. And those consequences, as you'll see, really are dire. Also can I just say - that final scene... OOF. Hit me like a ton of bricks.