Another one really liking your reading. And maybe sharing your cynicism? I think I'm too old to see princess outfits and rooms all in pink as empowering, So, in a way, I feel like it's both a step back (in terms of reintroducing the extreme girliness) and a pointing out of limitations where even the new freedom is carefully curtailed?

I can't evaluate the technical aspects like you (or kiki) can, but the cuts from one film to the other with the exact same movements were amazing. It did make me think of some of the stuff recently about limited faces for girls/women in animation? Like, how much of the parallels are ideological and how much are technical?

This is such a rich text, and I love the way the visuals and music/vocals are both parallel and in countermovement. I'll have to watch it a few more times, and I can't wait to hear what in depth vid review discussed.