Netlfix is airing Groenlandia‘s “The Law Accorinding to Lidia Poët” and it’s outstanding.
Lidia Poët’s life is a must read, although Susanna Menis in her essay” The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet“ disagrees. If you love to read footnotes and track down primary sources, Ms. Menis links to some outstanding research including a doctoral dissertation.
I find the acting to be so intense you get sucked into each scene. I don’t like graphic sex scenes and there are a few. There’s not much left to the imagination at the morgue either. The costumes are gorgeous. There are some intense scenes of drug use which are very graphic and disturbing.
The Duke’s ball rivaled any historical drama depicting an aristocratic waltzing.
What I find inspiring is that Lidia Poët is able to argue before the court and not lose her composure. Having been sued by Armstrong Steel and clamming up during the American Arbitration Association’s Evidentiary Hearing held on February 4, 2025, I wish I had strengthened my throat chakra beforehand.
But what is most impressive is a scene in which Lidia is drapped in this gorgeous deep purple suit riding a bicycle. Netflix has enhanced its Digital Rights Management (DRM) and copyright protection so you can’t record even so much as a clip nor a screenshot. However, someone managed to post on YouTube so I was able to make a 16 second clip from a clip to focus on the suit! Oh, I want this skirt suit!
Besides the color, notice her belt and how she has tiny bags hanging from it. It’s like Steampunk only it’s not. The story begins in 1883. Costume designer Stefano Ciammitti is a genius. I wish he’d make clothes for those of us who wish to wear real linen and dress like this! Women’s clothes today make us look like zombies in comparison. Hell, young people even buy denim jean’s that already have the knees slashed out!
But what if the color purple was picked because Hekate was letting us know that Lidia is an icon in the realm of liminal space and time!
“Liminal is from the Latin word ‘limen’, which means threshold. A liminal space is the time between ‘what was’ and ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a time of waiting and not knowing the future. Richard Rohr describes this space as, “where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That’s a good space where genuine newness can begin.” Most people feel completely overwhelmed and confused when going through a major life change. They feel raw, vulnerable and uncertain. And most of us, if we’re honest, will take just about any answer to get out of the discomfort that comes with a liminal space”
Does that not perfectly describe Ms. Lidia’s effect on everyone in the film?
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