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  1. Aug 2024
    1. Mulan uses expedient means to carry out a task and, having succeeded, seems to return to exactly who she was when she began

      You can call this women's empowerment, but only on a personal level.

    1. If Mulan accepted this invitation, the remake would head in the same direction that Caro has attempted before: characterizing women, either Josey and Glory in North Country or Mulan and Xianniang in Mulan, as agents fighting structural injustice and gendered oppression together.

      But Disney decided not to let that happen.