Turning Red: Movie Review
Turning Red: Movie Review Vocal cast: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, James Hong Director: Domee Shi It's 2002 Canada in the delightful Turning Red, an animated film that normalises menstruation in the mainstream, galvanises girls going through changes, and, as a result, appears to have been punished by releasing only on Disney+. Chiang is Mei Lee, an overly exuberant, dorky 13-year-old who struggles with the need to stay a dutiful daughter to her mother, and who's torn between her western loves of boybands and just generally messing about with her friends, living the mantra that "this year is going to be my year". Living by the honour your parents code (the number one rule in her family, Mei informs us straight away) is thrown further into disarray when one morning, Mei wakes up to smelly armpits and having transformed into a giant red panda. In case the metaphor is a little too subtle, Mei's mother Ming (Oh) asks her daughter "did the red peony bloom", befo...