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Of the many enduring images from We Were Dangerous, there’s one which truly capture the joy and freedom of girlhood. Forced into yet another day of labour on their island outpost, the group of misfit girls drop the cleaning cloths and mops and start to dance, arms raised. The total lack of self-consciousness and absence of any kind of outsider gaze evokes similar heart-squeezing scenes from coming-of-age darlings such as the ‘Diamonds’ sequence in Girlhood, or the gals singing the Love Island theme a cappella in How to Have Sex.
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