hello madi, hope you're well 🤍 was wondering if you have a reading / watch list for bones and all (2022)? been thinking about this film again.
hi sweetheart. am plagued by this film as well.
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The Cannibal’s Canción by Gloria Anzaldúa
Winter of Artifice by Anaïs Nin—"I felt myself caught in the immense jaws of his desire, felt myself dissolving, ripping open to his descent. I felt myself yielding up to his dark hunger. An immense jaw closing upon my feelings, my feelings smouldering, rising from me like smoke from a black mass. [...] He is not concerned to know whether I can live or breathe within the dark cavern of his whale-like being, within the whale-belly of his ego."
"Love of the Wolf" from Cixous' Stigmata:
Carson's Eros the Bittersweet:
can i say Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh? Süskind's Perfume?
Lévi-Strauss' We Are All Cannibals—"and after all, the most simple means to identify others with oneself is to eat them"—?
reaching..... can i say Kristeva's Powers of Horror?
^sort of re: the oral stage of psychic development
Amy Heneveld's words on the recurrent motif of cannibalism in medieval French literature, categorised (by Stith Thompson) as The Eaten Heart:
then, for films:
Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
Caníbal (2013) dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca
The Lure (2015) dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska—"What if you fall in love?" "Don't be silly." "Would you eat him?"
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) dir. Alain Resnais—"I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You're destroying me. You're good for me. You're destroying me. You're good for me. I have time. Please, devour me."
Everybody thought I'd gone crazy. The cops, my mom, everybody. But you see, they all missed the point of the story. I wasn't crazy. But when I was holding the shotgun, it all became clear. I realized for the first time my one true calling in life.