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relating to marianne sheridan is feeling awful about yourself until someone wants you, needing someone else's validation to feel good but never getting it, hating yourself but also thinking you're the smartest person in every room, achieving but things that don't even matter that much to you just to prove to yourself and everyone around you that you can, the constant need to show everyone that you're worth something but still always feeling like you're never doing enough, wanting to work more but not being able to make yourself do anything, gifted kid burnout, feeling alone most of the time, feeling like you were born sad and can never be truly happy for a longer period of time, wanting to end it but being in love with life...

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Episode title cards | BEEF (Netflix, 2023)

"A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms" by Pieter Aertsen (Episode 1)

Artwork by David Choe (Episodes 2-10)

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My Liberation Notes gets women’s longing so right, while also locating it in the everyday. Because that is how loneliness is experienced, not as the main character of a film in a big city or as a solo traveller. But on the walk back from work, while folding laundry, on waking up from a nap.

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in so many ways, my liberation notes is the anti-ghibli-movie. both mln and ghibli locate themes of collectivism, identity and family within countryside landscapes, and while ghibli infuses a sense of optimism and community-building into these landscapes, mln explores its desolation and loneliness. everytime theyre in sanpo, theres this stifling of identity, originality, creativity. there is a sense of stagnancy. mijeong and gu find comfort in each other to attempt to drown out this sense of stagnancy, but even that comfort is fleeting.

summer, which often symbolises a season of growth, joy, vibrance in the ghibli universe (and in the larger context of korean media), is associated with a deep-rooted weariness in mln. it symbolises back-breaking labour. it symbolises suffocation and disillusionment. it symbolises loneliness and alienation.

the show's subversions are just so goddamned beautiful and so goddamned heartwrenching.