A good film that doesn't quite make great to me for its unfocused nature and the misfire of Dottie as the protagonist, as great as Geena Davis is. Tom Hanks is a gem, of course, really owning the scumbag drunk energy and doing more to sell Jimmy's growth than the script does, and the cast is all charming and hard hitting. But the film is most interesting when it confronts the sexism of the fond, how they'd use women for profit one second then try and put them back in the kitchen the next. How opportunities for these white women didn't equal the same for black women. How this is a dream for character like Kit and Mae and Doris and they carved out a space in a time trying it's hardest not to let them. I was tearing up at the reprisal of their league song, of the community of it. Which is why Dottie, who's arc is ultimately just 'admits she wants this experience for a year but it's just something to look back on after going home with her husband and having kids' is such a mischoice as protagonist. There's strong potential here, and I hope the 2022 show capitalizes on it.