OpEd: 'PurpleHearts drops the core issue, the absolute urgency of insulin needs, to instead tell a bizarre version of a military love story.'
and the harmful ways it uses diabetes healthcare and tropey romance to make a pro-military story. Spoilers ahead.V for VendettaPurple Hearts
Cassie is a singer-songwriter and recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic who is rationing her insulin while working numerous jobs. In the beginning we see a few instances of Cassie testing her blood sugar, drawing the last units from her dwindling back up vial of insulin, and showing signs of dangerously high blood sugar.
Over the course of the film, Cassie’s Pride and Black Lives Matter bumper stickers on her old Subaru Outback begin to feel like posturing. In one scene, she wears a “The Future Is Female” shirt while she unsuccessfully proposes marriage for health insurance to her longtime friend, and Marine, Frankie, played by Chosen Jacobs. Luke, who is Frankie’s bunkmate, takes issue with the shirt because he feels personally attacked by it.
By the time Luke is deployed Cassie is unfazed by her new husband’s part in the U.S. military agenda and despite not knowing him at all, is somehow madly in love. I’m sure many citizens of the countries
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