And unlike the original, the new “Ghostbusters” is quietly about something—namely the pain of having oneself and one’s experiences discounted or mocked by a society that doesn’t know what to do with them, and the way that we each have the capacity to liberate one another from that exile, if we are willing to reach out and believe.
For what on the surface seems like the wackiest of comedies, it’s pretty potent territory, especially given the political landscape of our world and country today. While the online He-Man Women Hater’s Club may discount the whole idea of a female “Ghostbusters” as an empty, politically correct gesture, it seems to me the kind of story that might speak not only to women but to people of faith and others who know what it’s like to be ostracized because of who they are or what they’ve experienced.
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