Malgorzata Zabkowska and Jerzy Stuhr in Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979)
Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak, Tadeusz Bradecki, Marek Litewka, Tadeusz Rzepka. Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr. Cinematography: Jacek Petrycki. Music: Krzysztof Knittel.
Film, said Jean-Luc Godard, is "truth 24 times a second." But as Oscar Wilde put it, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple," which is the problem amateur filmmaker Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) runs into when he begins to devote his life to making movies. Filip, a purchasing agent for a state-run factory in the Polish town of Wielice, buys a Russian-made 8mm camera when his first child is born. His wife, Irka (Malgorzata Zabkowska), is not entirely thrilled by the purchase, which cost him two months' salary, and she grows even more disenchanted when he devotes more and more time to his new hobby. Filming his new daughter takes up less of his time after the director of the factory (Stefan Czyzewski) says he will buy film for Filip if he will make a documentary about an anniversary celebration of the factory's founding, at which numerous Communist Party higher-ups will be present. Filip throws himself whole-heartedly into the project, going to movies more often and reading film books to pick up tips about filmmaking technique. When the director sees the film he makes some suggestions for cuts: Don't show the bigwigs slipping out of the meeting to go to the bathroom, for example, and what's with all the insert shots of pigeons? And then Anna, a pretty representative of the state film commission, shows up to suggest that Filip enter his movie in a festival celebrating industrial filmmaking. This only adds fuel to Irka's jealousy of Filip's avocation. Filip takes third prize at the festival -- after a judge proclaims that none of the films entered deserved a first prize -- and attracts the notice of a TV station in Krakow, which is interested in news footage from Wielice. As Filip's filmmaking career snowballs, however, so do his troubles: The neglected Irka leaves him, and the director informs him that the footage he has sent to the TV station, revealing that renovation funds for the town have been misused, has caused some projects, like a nursery school, to be canceled, and that he has had to fire some of Filip's fellow workers. Camera Buff is clearly a fable about the compulsiveness that drives and sometimes destroys artists, as well as a rather oblique satire on the dreariness of Polish life under communist rule. At the end of the film, Filip is reduced to filming perhaps the only thing he can be sure of: himself.
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Okay this was more of a "hey wouldnt it be funny if” thought because there is no way this can fit in a canon timeline, but imagine Steve having three supernatural/Upside Down affected, superpowered boyfriends that love him and protect him
1. Post-Flayed!Billy: regains control outside of the hive mind but retains his black veins and badass super strength (he is the biggest and physically strongest of the bfs), probably also his ability to sense those like El when she tries to remote view him or sense MF shenanigans like Will
2. Vampire!Eddie: came back from the dead post season 4; paler skinned and red eyes, cute sharp fangs and claws, pointy ears, and maybe he folded bat wings too?? Depends on how freaky he could be lol I think he has a little enhanced vampire strength and speed too; the fastest/most agile of the bfs
3. Superpowered!Jonathan: El got powers, I’m a “Will Byers has powers” truther who thinks he was born with them, let's apply that to Jonathan too lol; whatever powers are up to you, like one could go telekinesis like Henry, El, and the test subjects, or something else like telepathy, force fields etc; the most ‘magicky’ bf I guess haha
Imagine the carnage if some or all end up fighting each other over something small and Steve gets annoyed, bc his freaky bfs have the abilities to absolutely level Hawkins together if they wanted to but instead they’re fighting over who gets to cuddle with him that day
(But also imagine when someone or something threatens Steve and that’s when they all kick into gear together to protect their bb)
I never thought of superpowered Jonathan omg, I love that so much??? Also love the idea of them fighting over Steve’s attention and time because all three of them are actually very hotheaded. Billy is the most obvious, but Jonathan is a ball of rage if you push his buttons and Eddie screams all the time and definitely knows how to throw a good right hook and run cause of his prison father ✨
So Billy having strength, Eddie being agile and Jonathan being the shield? You got a top class party according to Eddie, and Steve is their heart of gold paladin who is willing to get his face smashed in for his boyfriends but usually gets saved from that fate 😂
The shenanigans though, god. Billy tinging black instead “green” when he’s jealous and Jonathan constantly rolling his eyes at the other two because they’re the most argumentative. They’re a power team against him thought because Jonathan is as sneaky as a snake when it comes to getting on Steve’s good side while Eddie and Billy shout over something stupid. All three of them love metal and rock and Steve just has to suffer with their tastes, least he be hissed at by Eddie every time he tries to turn the player off.
Billy knows how to push Jonathan’s buttons and it usually ends with him stuck to the ceiling by one of his dome shields until Steve finds him and asks Jonathan to let him down, saying it’s too early for this shit. Jonathan usually complies once he wrangles out a half-hearted apology from the blond.
The idea of Eddie with pointy ears and little fangs ahhh; his big old wings he keeps tucked against his back <3 they almost brush his feet because they’re thin and need the girth to make up for his weight, but he uses them as blankets during movie night more often than not. Perfect cuddle tactic because Eddie loves cuddling, Steve centric or not
Also, I think Eddie refuses to feed off any boyfriend except Steve because Jonathan and Billy taste awful. Billy more so. His blood is essentially dead and the only thing keeping him alive is Billy’s own sheer willpower (that’s a lie, they have no idea how he’s standing, but they have theories and jokes). Jonathan just tastes weird, probably because all the chemicals in his blood are just inherently different due to his body rewiring to handle his power. Will and El are similar in that regard, but Eddie isn’t tempted to snack on them unlike he’s boyfriends. So Steve is his go to nibble, but it’s fine because Steve loves neck kisses and basically counts it as the same just a lot more intense ✨
I love the thought of anyone fucking with Steve, whether it’s government or just customers at work, and having his own literal gang of monster boyfriends to scare people off. Just a glare is enough for regular people, but government gets the hint when Eddie flies one of them up a little too high and cackles, threatening to drop them while Jonathan barely breaks a sweat shielding off bullets, Billy’s veins coloring like ink and grinning like an absolute maniac before he slams someone into the floor. Steve is just there trying not to be arrest, screaming at them to quit it and nothing really changing because all three of them are overtly protective and enjoying it a little too much. Jonathan’s the only one who can chill out on command, even if he grumbles, which often leads to him having to bring the other two back to their morals.
They work well together as a polycule and are very happy with their regular human boyfriend who works a boring 9-5 and spends the rest of his time giving them all his attention <3
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