"Escape From Tomorrow" Review (Cut Segment)

This is the critique section on Jenny Nicholson in my review for <i>Escape From Tomorrow</i>.
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Take Jenny Nicholson, for example— but with an extreme grain of salt, as, ironically, she put out a <a href="https://youtu.be/KAN_IPwK1K8" rel="nofollow">hit piece</a> against <i>Abandoned by Disney</i> because she is friends with alleged abuser Max Landis who has beef with Slimebeast, the creepypasta's writer (see Slimebeast's <a href="https://youtu.be/_IJuk5CPOFA?si=gR-Mg5-caH2QmcM7&t=3151" rel="nofollow">video</a> calling out his haters for more context). Don't get me wrong, I do like many of Jenny Nicholson's videos, but her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38BiNsFFzcs" rel="nofollow">video</a> on this film seems pretty hateful towards director Randy Moore.

She begins by summarizing and oversimplifying scenes without context, treating them as straightforward plot points. Nicholson is quick to point out Jim's misogyny, as if the film was trying to praise that behavior, and doesn't point out Emily's abuse as a parallel to how this magical evil is affecting the both of them. Instead, Emily is a caricature of the nagging wife by her logic. She never really acknowledges the surrealist aspect, later attempting to get there but abandoning it because it's too hard, actively bypassing understandings that we are meant to see what consumerism and overindulging in pleasure does to a person in an extremist way— despite inferring Moore is an unsubtle filmmaker, of course. Everything is at face value with her. She thinks that the French teenagers are supposed to be how Moore thinks girls act at a theme park, actively ignoring their mythological siren qualities in relation to being lost within one's imagination or the literal fairy reveal at the end.

Other reaches include her mischaracterization of an editor's note in an interview with Moore, not realizing the misogyny was supposed to be offputting, ragging on the Emu as the turkey legs joke in the film as well as Randy Moore's joke that he doesn't know if it's truly a myth, calling out his creative choice of replaying clips "because his filmmaking is so subtle" when it's perfectly fine in context (let's make sure she never watches <i>The Usual Suspects</i>), having a problem with Moore's repetition on the press junket like that's not something other people do in press interviews, condescendingly bashing on Moore for using a freaking idiom, and complaining about filming people without their permission— the latter of which I guess is a grey area since Disney theme parks are considered to be a private space that is open to the public but I would assume it mirrors the sentiment outlined on <a href="https://downloadreleaseforms.com/need-release-form-filmmaking-videos/#:~:text=Do%20I%20need%20a%20release%20form%20for%20shooting%20people%20out%20in%20public%20on%20the%20street?" rel="nofollow">DownloadReleaseForms.com</a> as ethical, being that "people out in public don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

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