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Some people, they are the real people. Like in a movie, they’re the ones you’re watching, they’re the ones making moves. And the other people, they’re just there filling the space. And you take'em for granted. You think, they’re easy. Take a penny, leave a penny. That’s you, Eileen.

EILEEN (2023) dir. William Oldroyd

#eileen #it was so good

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“One of the last sessions I had with the psychologist, he said to me, ‘Imagine you could go back and make that event not happen. The risk is that you quite possibly wouldn’t be doing what you’d be doing now. Would you go back and change it?’ And I know I wouldn’t. Having experienced that, and the empathy that comes with it… I’d never swap that in a million years. I certainly wouldn’t swap telling stories. That is just part of my life and I’ve got through it. It’s lovely to know I can.”

-- Shane Meadows, about the horrific event from his childhood that inspired The Virtues (x)

#making me cry like this #shane meadows #the virtues #absolutely incredible work #and it's thanks to raised by wolves that i saw it ^^ #i was just checking out what else niamh algar had been in ^^ #i love everything else shane meadows has made and it still knocked me off my socks how incredibly good this was ... #(also: interesting that he did EMDR ... i've been working with that too and it's been better than anything else i've tried - weird as it is

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Okay lol, I watched two more episodes, and I was proven wrong in some assumptions. Though that they had the characters (and audience) thinking along those lines with Mother's "pregnancy", is still irritating ...

The androids are still some of the most emotionally volatile characters in the show, for some strange reason, with the whole 'jealousy' arc etc.

WHY DID THEY NOT EVEN TRY CUTTING THE HEAD OFF THE SNAKE THING??

INSTEAD THEY TRIED TO KILL IT IN A WAY THAT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD HAVE A LOW SUCCESS RATE, AND THAT WOULD HAVE INTENTIONALLY WASTED SO MUCH RESOURCES (= THE SHIP AND BOTH ANDROIDS)??? (It was only completely unexpected chance that let the androids survive)

Because that was the smartest way the storyteller(s) could think to move the story forward to the tropical zone part??

Why does the crazy guy keep cheating death in the most ridiculous ways .......

I can't take any of the religious stuff seriously, so it frustrates me when so many characters do.

But I was glad the 'voice of Sol' seems to be artificial, as is the snake thing.

I'm still wondering how exactly the snake got into Mother, especially if it's in fact biotech ... I hope there will be answers :<

The birth and aftermath was seriously one of the most disturbing scenes I've seen in a WHILE ... well done T^T

A bit of classic classism there where Mother 'wonders' where all the artists and poets are in the Atheist collective, and Mary says something about how it's not the most sophisticated ones who survive ..... As if the survivors were inherently 'lowly' people and not shaped by their circumstances. Although maybe Mary was just projecting about herself ^^

I got really obsessed with Raised By Wolves (the scifi TV series), and I loved the first several episodes, but now I got to s01ep09 and I'm like ... whatttt :((((

I hope it'll develop in interesting directions still, since there's still one ep and the whole 2nd season for me to watch, though apparently it got cancelled before the full story really concluded, but:

Abortions are not possible for androids, apparently

A highly sophisticated and extremely powerful android is apparently incapable of viewing their programmed 'emotions' objectively and overriding them when necessary

What the fuck was the thing where the Swedish guy after beating up the crazy guy put Mother's eye in the crazy guy's mouth and made him crush it? Why?? Just as a way to conveniently take away her Necromancer powers, for the sake of the story?

Because apparently that's the point of the whole story now - to have an extremely powerful android (a Necromancer) that happens to be designed to look like a woman (reminding of 'Maria' from Metropolis), and then take away all her powers and reduce her to Female BiologyTM and The Only Actual Purpose Of A Female, Like, EverTM (bearing children biologically), Because That's The Thing That She Actually Truly Wants, Since She Is A Female You Know - Even Androids That Look Like Women Are Not Free From This Ha Ha Ha

The absolutely disgusting way Tempest "got to kill" the rapist, but in a terrifying and traumatizing way. As if she couldn't be allowed to kill him unless he was as threatening and dangerous and as close to doing the horrible thing again as possible, and she seemed as weak and powerless as possible.

Very confusing how quickly the crazy guy got fully into the religious shit after being an Atheist all his life ... I mean yeah they spent 13 years or so in the simulation, but his switch happened so quickly only after they landed on Kepler-22b. I'd almost expect there to be some explanation for why he went insane so fast, but somehow I doubt it T^T

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I got really obsessed with Raised By Wolves (the scifi TV series), and I loved the first several episodes, but now I got to s01ep09 and I'm like ... whatttt :((((

I hope it'll develop in interesting directions still, since there's still one ep and the whole 2nd season for me to watch, though apparently it got cancelled before the full story really concluded, but:

Abortions are not possible for androids, apparently

A highly sophisticated and extremely powerful android is apparently incapable of viewing their programmed 'emotions' objectively and overriding them when necessary

What the fuck was the thing where the Swedish guy after beating up the crazy guy put Mother's eye in the crazy guy's mouth and made him crush it? Why?? Just as a way to conveniently take away her Necromancer powers, for the sake of the story?

Because apparently that's the point of the whole story now - to have an extremely powerful android (a Necromancer) that happens to be designed to look like a woman (reminding of 'Maria' from Metropolis), and then take away all her powers and reduce her to Female BiologyTM and The Only Actual Purpose Of A Female, Like, EverTM (bearing children biologically), Because That's The Thing That She Actually Truly Wants, Since She Is A Female You Know - Even Androids That Look Like Women Are Not Free From This Ha Ha Ha

The absolutely disgusting way Tempest "got to kill" the rapist, but in a terrifying and traumatizing way. As if she couldn't be allowed to kill him unless he was as threatening and dangerous and as close to doing the horrible thing again as possible, and she seemed as weak and powerless as possible.

Very confusing how quickly the crazy guy got fully into the religious shit after being an Atheist all his life ... I mean yeah they spent 13 years or so in the simulation, but his switch happened so quickly only after they landed on Kepler-22b. I'd almost expect there to be some explanation for why he went insane so fast, but somehow I doubt it T^T

#did they get inspired by the worst parts of blade runner 2049 or something :( #forever thinking about some dude at a party who went around proclaiming that the Special Thing about Women is that they Bear Children #i asked him what the fuck i am then since i've never born a child and never will #guess i am a man then ^^ #raised by wolves spoilers #rbw spoilers

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#oh yeah and this was the post that set me out on the path that led me to discovering and watching Out Of The Furnace #thank you <3

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In Out Of The Furnace, the specifics of Woody Harrelson's character and his scene were a bit random, though - i'm glad they'd edited out the more direct (and obviously misleading) references to the Ramapough Lenape Nation in the version I saw. (Except the surnames that 'happen to be' very common among the nation.)

it seems that part was unfortunately partly inspired by some racist made up stories in a real life murder case (an unarmed Ramapough tribe member killed by a park ranger) - check out the New Yorker article Fiction in the Ramapos by Ben McGrath.

I probably wouldn't have noticed those details at all if I hadn't read trivia about the movie - in the edited version post-lawsuit they are just an unspecified group of people from the Jersey Appalachians, which is all they need to be.

And it's not the point that those people would be 'bad' compared to other characters that would be 'good'.

The message is that everybody is fucked anyway - the different characters are just on different points in a spectrum of "trying to not fuck others <--> going all out on fucking others, too", to try to get ahead, to get justice, or just to survive, and failing nonetheless, because they're all fucked by forces far greater (class society, capitalism and the military-industrial complex basically!). :(

#i just felt like i needed to address this stuff after i read about it #because this was honestly one of the best films i've seen in my life #it was Born In The U.S.A.; Youngstown; Atlantic City (and other such songs) as a well crafted movie set in the 00s and 10s basically #out of the furnace #the ptsd representation too #i could unfortunately relate #(spoiler -----------------------------) rodney's death scene will probably stay with me forever #anyway i saw a post here comparing Finest Kind with Out Of The Furnace and NO ABSOLUTELY NOT lmaoooo jfc #ootf is an actually good realistic and genuinely devastating story #the only thing they have in common is the american working class setting :< #which is genuine and true only in ootf :<

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“Working for a living? I gave my life for this country and what’s it done for me? Huh? What’s it done for me?” Movies Watched in 2017 | Out of the Furnace (2013)

#really good #i kept thinking 'there should be more movies and books and comics etc etc like this' #out of the furnace #braddock pittsburgh #the ending from the test screenings that they apparently changed would have been better though imo #now it gives some kind of false sense of triumph when he's really just fucked either way #and that's the whole point :/

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#finestkind ..... #the first 2/3rds or so were okay #a bit cliché and a little unrealistic maybe but not awful #then the 'heist' storyline kicked in #along with the worst melodramatic codependent brainless garbage of 'family is everything' ...... #AND the ENDING was DISGUSTING 🤣 #with the younger brother explaining why he wanted to be a fisherman and his rich dad deciding to sort out the 100k #i was like WHAT THE FUCK AM I EVEN WATCHING 😭😭😭😭😭 #maybe i took it personally bc I've myself written a story about a kid who may or may not have had other options but decided to go to sea #but while my story wasn't meant to be realistic (it was fantasy) i do think i handled that part way better 😭 #anyway i think finestkind could have been better if they'd left out the drug smuggling and focused the drama on just the human relations #though that would have required better dialogue writing ... #middle class garbage basically - #middle class person watched deadliest catch and cooked up some exciting thriller drama story with a gary stu 😔 #i liked the scallop fishing details #but then there are documentaries and reality tv you can watch instead 😬

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Pearl (2022) dir. Ti West

#pearl 2022

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Pearl (2022)

#that was so borderline of her <3 #very relatable movie for all girls who grew up with mental illness-abuse-poverty-and the urge to become artists/stars in their families #pearl 2022

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#rice ^^ #all the other options are luxury goods wtf lol #except the ice cube soup .... wtf ;___; #maybe it's referring to mental struggles not material struggles #polls

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#bottoms #let's just say it reminded me of a girl i knew irl #who would say that rather than debate and vote on issues; physical fights would be a much better way to solve disagreements in our org #she was a young skinny and frail girl #she was in awe when me and another older woman talked about having to resort to violence against sexual harassers #well as someone who has actual experience of violence and physical fights i'll just say #that is NOT a better way to solve disagreements #esp feminist issues / between men and women #what a middle class feminist point of view...... #yes to pragmatically learning to use it to defend yourself when you have to #no to thinking it will solve patriarchy if 'Women Can Be Violent Too!!!1[TM]'

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i am SO curious about something but i can’t make a decent poll out of it and get the richness and variety of answers that i want so if you feel like it please in the tags or the replies or the reblogs tell me: how old are you, how many homes have you had, and which home(s) is/are “home” to you when you dream about home?

#42 #~20?? #more places that i stayed for short periods of time and called 'home' at the time but i don't really count them #varies wildly #sometimes amalgams of different homes #depends on how old i am in the dream #and what vibe the dream has ^^

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#fear the walking dead #ftwd #ftwd s02 #i'm enjoying it very much #people say it becomes shit in later seasons (like twd) so i'm enjoying the early seasons to the max #and nick is the best <3

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#nice

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ROBERTA COLINDREZ AS LUPE GARCÍA A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

#if i knew her irl i'd be absolutely terrified of her and completely certain she hated me #i.e. i'd be so gone for her #haha #roberta colindrez #she is so beautiful in every possible way also outside of this show