thatneoncrisis:

thatneoncrisis:

honestly I do find it hilarious that the trailers for cruella created the conundrum of “how the fuck are they gonna make a dog killer a sympathetic #girlboss” then addressed this by simply not having her kill dogs or even wear real furs, basically the one defining trait of cruella

there’s this excellent video by mina le that basically goes into how the costuming in that movie is representative of a much larger problem around it’s themes, namely how having cruella forgo actually crossing any moral lines and associating her with punk movements via her clothing essentially shows how shallow her motivations are if you think about it even a little bit. shes not fighting the establishment, she doesn’t even really have a problem with it, she’s just mad at one bitch in particular, but stripping her of any truly vile behavior, ie the cartoonish lengths she went to in order to kill puppies demonstrating her larger than life villainy, just makes her hollow and static