Wicked
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Wicked 2024

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Watched 21 Nov 2024

"Dancing through life
Down at the Ozdust
If only because dust
Is what we come to
And the strange thing:
Your life could end up changing
While you're dancing through..."

What Wicked (part one) lacks in subtlety and conciseness, it makes up for by just being a really fun, happy-go-lucky time at the movies. And that's how the vast majority of audiences will receive it, purely as spectacle, with a bucket of popcorn and an icy green slushy. Except there's more to unpack: a potent political message. Which again, is less than subtle - but 1000% relevant to our time.

More after a second viewing. Until then...

DEFY.

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