

I’ll happily vouch for it too. The writing is emotional, well acted and painfully poignant in our current world, to the point that I’m surprised Disney even let them make the commentary they did. It could easily stand alone divorced from the Star Wars setting.




Art is not inherently entertaining. Art can be many things. It can be something meant to invoke certain feelings, including negative ones, and it can be a commentary on something the artist finds important. Protest art falls in that category. The performance, carrying around the mattress, makes a concept that is abstracted for many people into something tangible and easy to empathize with. I’d be pretty outraged if a school forced one of its attendees to carry around that physical weight arbitrarily. I should be outraged that they’re making her carry the emotional weight of attending the school alongside her rapist.