Meesh Says Things

Good question. The answer changes a lot.

My name is Michelle (my friends call me Meesh).

I’m a writer and filmmaker from Miami, Florida. As someone whose film theory professor once told her, “I’m so glad you focused on a topic other than feminism in your last paper,” I have a lot to say about both pop culture and social inequality.

This blog is for all of you pop culture aficionados who want to talk about their favorite media in all its forms, from film scores to television comedies to cultural misogyny. For weekly updates and stories, don’t forget to also follow @meeshsaysthings on Instagram.

Let’s dive in, friends! We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, and we’ll definitely make some people mad. Art, after all, is a hot-blooded affair.

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“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others, perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable.”