Thread by @monaeltahawy

The very first time I saw the trailer for @allatoncemovie, I said "This is a film about menopause!"

The very first time I saw the film, I was convinced "This is a film about menopause!" I saw it three times and wrote this feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

And I have now become known to the The Daniels--who wrote and directed @allatoncemovie--as the "middle aged woman who wrote an essay that said #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce is about menopause."

Here The Daniels tell Daniel Radcliffe that on @A24 podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

And here too: "I read this incredible review from a middle-aged woman who basically saw this film as a menopause movie. She said, "Oh, this film is the perfect metaphor for what I'm going through right now, as I'm going through menopause." filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da…

Between crushing anxiety, hot flashes, red hot rage and brain fog, who does not want to beat the whole world up?

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

The rollercoaster of a film that is @allatoncemovie is the 1st time I feel someone has heard & given voice to the flood of “what if’s” that perimenopause has brought as well as the physical and emotional changes we are squeezed through to emerge as the superheroes we need to be.

The multiverse might not need us to save it, but our internal multiverse needs us to have a similar reckoning, to stand in the power of a self that has made it through the perimenopause and everything it threw at us, and to emerge as our own superheroes. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

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