Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is the Left’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl
18th February 2019
Apparently this is a Hollywood archetype. We’re all in a 1930s rom-com.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a stock character first classified by Nathan Rabin in a 2007 review of Elizabethtown, a film he described as “The Bataan Death March of Whimsy.” “The Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” he wrote, “exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”
You could just as easily call her Tinkerbell: When you wish upon a star/Your dreams come true.