It's a whole new world, baby. It's a whole new world.

while its establishing its visual/formal brilliance before the WB logo even shows up, the very first actual Narrative motion that speed racer makes is one of total and seldom-extended compassion towards a child. it completely frees this child from any measure of "worth" that others seek to impose on him, asserting the equal validity of his inner world to the world at large, and reassuring him that his purpose…

Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost.

here's my contextual disclaimers: (1) the wait for the wicked movie has lasted Two decades, and i was actively within that wait for an entire One of them. ive been imagining how defying gravity would look staged for a film for years before i even got into movies. (2) the interim between my sad fucked up closeted teenage self falling in love with wicked and today, the first…