Judy Blume Forever Review
On Amazon Prime
I’ve just finished, finally, Judy Blume Forever on Amazon Prime.
The documentary features an in-depth look at Democrat children’s book author, and her Democrat fans, Judy Blume. The film is produced only from a Democrat point of view, and contrasts itself with what it takes to be the Republican point of view on the age-old topic of age-appropriate material for minors.
There are some positives of the film. The film is clearly pro-book, and I would say it’s to some extent pro-honesty in fiction.
The book show-cases the like-able author who leads with her emotional, honest vulnerability as a window into her financially successful writing career.
If the film had the power to make children more pro-book, that feature alone would be a zipper-link with Republican concerns about the over-technologizing of the young. (And the old, for that matter). This feature alone has tremendous value in the current context of screens in faces eating away the souls of America.
(If I could make The Republican Professor newsletter a paper bound thing you’re to hold in your hand to read, instead of reading it on whatever screen you’re currently reading it on, I would. Believe me, I would. We have hope for the future possibilities).
Another positive of the film is that the Democrats, if you wait long enough and are patient enough, eventually get around to criticizing their own side often along the same lines that they criticize Republicans. And the film doesn’t disappoint on that score, either. Between 5 and 10 minutes till the very end of the film, it gently rips right into Judy Blume’s books. The criticism: Gender. And I was waiting for it, belee dat.
She’s called historical fiction. Why ? Because her characters are Binary. Male and female. Too Genesis 1:26-27 for these Democrats.
The blow is softened almost as quickly, as it relativizes not only Blume, but its own criticism. As Helmut Thielicke said in a recent TRP Podcast episode, the relativizers are sucked into their own vortex.
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