Noah: This car is bugging, I'm out. *tries to open door*
Mirage: *locks door* You're not going anywhere. You're mine now!
I just can't get over this scene! 🤭 Mirage really locked Noah in and then proceeds to kidnap him, and that begins the start to a beautiful adventure full of comedy and a roller-coaster of emotions.
A Court of Fey and Flowers truly is wild, I mean, first you have BINX and Andhera, pretty much acting out a goddamn Disney regency fairytale romance but better, *chef's kiss*, doing great; then you have Rue and Hob HAVING THE ROMANCE OF THE CENTURY, like SERIOUSLY, Brennan and Oscar were giving the performances of their lifetimes, went from zero to 200% just like that, stealing the entire show, how did they do this??? And then you have Chirp and Squak just being insane rich cousins and doing drugs.
Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Primarch Adrien Victus, Dalatrass Linron, and Urdnot Wrex
With: Comm. Specialist Samantha Traynor
Commander, you need to keep Cerberus at bay- I can't overstate what a victory a treaty between the Turians and the Krogan would be for the Alliance. We need all the help we can get...
Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)
I will forever have "was is des? Das einzige was mir zu mir gehört. Ich verflüche den Tag an den Vati mich an den Schlitten gesetzt hat" in my mind. It's just on replay
The thing about the painter analog that people don't get and makes them hate it is that at heart this isn't a serious horror story. This is pure gore not only for the sake of gore but for the sake of camp. Once I was talking of to my dad laughing at the guy who had his face sanded off and he was like yeah not new they did that in Jason already 🙄 which was later reinforced by UrbanSpook admitting this is inspired by those old 80s slasher which should tell you everything.
I'm saying this bc i saw a video pairing it with Playground and the incest game and while I don't know the second I watched a video on playground once and the difference is that that book is trying to tell a story and say something on top of the gore but the later makes it hard to care. Which is kind of the issue another "gone too far" piece of media my beloved A Serbian Film runs into where you cannot take yourself too seriously if you also want to show over the top violence or you'll lose the audience.
OF COURSE there are exceptions like Hostel, Saw and 😏 the human centipede ☺️ (cocksucker for that movie and it's more serious points, though it barely counts bc the gore is very tame save for in 2) and I couldn't exactly tell you what's the difference between what makes them work and what doesn't but still.
But I'm getting off topic I'm not here to say which media is good or not I'm here to point out the painter is not a serious story that asks you to care for the characters it's a over the top schlocky gore that asks you to go GROOOOSS or laugh at the over the top brutality it presents. Which is very standard in horror.
this arc also has one of my favorite lloyd illustrations in the entire novel and listen listen-
i don't want to be mean but like,,, c'moooonnn look me in the eye and tell me this wasn't a downgrade. c'mon. this is not a dig to the artist they are doing an awesome job but like,,,, c'mon
edit: so,,i might've been wrong about this one ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_,,, turns out,,, i was confusing two different events in which lloyd absorbs mana from a jewel,,, so,,, i apologize for comparing the two when i shouldn't have :(
edit 2: i apologize for shit!! the webtoon was a coward and didn't give us lloyd turning someone into a mummy by absorbing his mana and looking pretty while doing it!! absolute travesty!! crime against humanity and me specifically!! jail!! jail for webtoon writers and artists for one thousand years!!
Finally watched Goncharov (1973) and while I’m not generally into mafia movies... the Fruit Stand Scene???!!!
THIS LIVES RENT-FREE IN MY MIND NOW.
Katya gives Sofia the apple. Sofia hands Katya the pomegranate. The Eve-Persephone parallels (women whose destinies changed irrevocably after being tricked into eating a piece of fruit) are SPECIFICALLY invoked. But the real question is, which one is which?
The framing of the scene suggests that Sofia is Eve (about to lose her sense of innocence and be inducted into the knowledge of evil), and that Katya is Persephone (trapped by a marriage that binds her forever to the (criminal) underworld). Except, that also makes no sense because we don't see them eat the fruit. How could they reap the consequences for an action they didn't actually take?
I would argue that it's not about the fruits they RECEIVE... it's about the ones they OFFER. The fruits they have already eaten, and been doomed by.
Sofia doesn't need to learn about evil. She lost her whole family. She knows enough about evil already. And Katya doesn't need to be bound to anything, when her own choices have left her so deeply entrenched.
"That’s the first lesson. Always blame the Devil for your crimes." (0:15:24)
Katya is Eve. Katya got roped into this mess a long time ago and has so many regrets now that she understands what it all means. Katya plays her piano in the room next to a murder, not because she doesn't know what's going on, but because she DOES. Katya wishes more than anything that she could turn back the clock to some idyllic time before her daughter died, before she joined the mafia, before she ever had to steal a purse or put a gun to a man's head. She tries so hard to end that cycle of violence... and it doesn't work. It was never going to work. The Apple of Eden isn't part of a cycle; it's just the beginning of the story.
"Don’t you dare speak to me about Cosenza." (1:20:41)
Sofia is Persephone. Sofia is constantly arguing that murder isn't necessary- but she also nearly drowns Katya, and shows a bizarre fascination with death when Katya threatens her with the knife. Sofia is linked to nature (the green dress, the sunset motif, the vase of flowers in her first scene) but in paltry, disconnected ways (her dress has metal buttons, the sunsets are over the city, the flowers are halfway to wilting). Sofia is part of a cycle; moments of happiness and joy, interspersed and defined by recurring instances of death and violence. Her childhood in WW2. The incident where she lost her leg. Whatever happened that made her learn how to use a gun. Her whole bloodied dynamic with Katya now. But Sofia CAN escape... for a time. She can walk away from the violence and have her summer in the sunlight. At least until tragedy strikes again.
Which makes the ending of the movie really bittersweet. Sofia sails away on the boat (Charon's Ferry, making a reverse trip across the River Styx). And the scene closes as the first snowflakes start to fall. Winter comes to Naples, because spring follows Persephone when she leaves.
i'm gonna say something that a lot of people won't agree with and that is probably weirdly controversial on here but every single song by Tomás is a bop