A verdade é que a gente nunca sabe em que lugar estamos na vida das pessoas. Porque uma hora elas nos tratam como alguém especial, e depois como qualquer um.
MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2023 [12/?]
⤿ Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks) (2014) dir. Daniel Ribeiro
I'm trying to understand your desire to go so far away. I think it's natural, especially at your age, to want to see other places, meet new people, make other friends. I think it's normal, but I also think it's very natural to fight with your parents. I was like that, too, but it's too extreme to leave the country to run away from the fights.
Giovana! What? Do you see a sweatshirt laying around? No. Are you sure, not even under the bed? Nope, not even under the bed.
Leo, I am really sorry I left you alone at school. Are you okay? Yeah!
HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO (2014)
dir. Daniel Ribeiro
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
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So, Last twilight kinda got me the urge to rewatch some of my favorite movies, (and another ones) and one of those wich i feel i need to compare, it's "Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho" yes is a brasillian movie directed by "Daniel Ribeiro", (i guess for you guys the name is "The way he looks")
And is one of my favorite queer love stories, resolves around this romance drama, Leo is this boy who is born blind and Gabriel who is the new kid in school, anyways in "The Way He Looks" Leo spends good part of the movie questioning his parents why can't he be with the other kids and do things other kids do, and his mom is always worried he would be lost in the dark, Leo response to this is "Is always Dark to me".
Of course, Day in Last twilight was not blind since birth like Leo, but i can see the same anguish in both of them: the fear of not being perceived of not being part of something, Day has lost probably the only thing he thought that make him himself, to be an atlet, now that he is blind and can't even do basic chores by himself without hurting he can only feel useless and desesperate to everything to be like it used to be, maybe that's why he is so sure Mhok will not handle him, or that he will quit the job, and how no one could ever perceive him or love him again, cause in the end for Day he is no different than a dead man.
Another movie i would love to quote here "I'm a cyborg, but that's okay" Park il-sun (he is played by Rain) and one of the most striking traits of his character is that he feels he is gonna vanish one day, i don't think Day fears vanishing like Il-sun, like he says in the movie "I'm not anti-social, i'm anti-vanishing" and he steals all kinda of stuff just to someone sees him, then he would not disapear, maybe what i'm trying to explain here, is this urge Day has in finding anything to cope, he is sarcastic and pretty much a brat only cause he refuses to deal with the enourmos trauma he is living, cause at least for me is clear that in one year he barely adapted himself to the idea of this new life style he had to take.
A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.
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Leonardo-The Way He Looks / Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho
Qualifications:
He is Blind and Gay (both Canon)
Propaganda:
Leo is charming but at the same time a complete mess, I love him
Charlotte Webber / Sun Spider-Marvel
Qualifications:
Charlie is canonically disabled and canonically queer, having EDS and being pansexual. She was originally a spider-sona created by a fan, Dawn Broder, who is agender and disabled.Unlike most disabled characters in superhero media, Charlie stays disabled even after gaining her powers! She uses crutches and a wheelchair, both of which are used alongside her webslinging. Her crutches have webslingers inside them, meaning she uses them to get around even while being sun-spider, and Across The Spider-verse shows her wheelchair being able to help her climb on walls and similar as well. Charlie's story also covers issues faced by disabled people! When an emergency happens at her prom, she's reminded that if she wasn't a spider-person she would be left behind as the others evacuate, which is something that's common irl as well.
Charlotte Webber (Sun-Spider) has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and is an ambulatory wheelchair and crutch user. As shown in the comics she is also queer! She was created by Dayn Broder, a queer disabled comics editor and writer who also has EDS. Sun-Spider’s screentime in Across The Spiderverse was awesome especially the design of her wheelchair. She has web-shooters equipped in her crutches which she uses to fight with. She’s just so fucking cool and hopefully gets more inclusion in comics in the future.
Propaganda:
Charlie is SO important to me as a disabled person because she shows that we can be superheroes while still being disabled, we don't have to have our disabilities taken away to be super. She's also a very fun character! She's funny!
Mostly what I said in the last section, but once again she’s so cool and her wheelchair in ATSV is so sick (when she is not using it it follows her with sort of mecha spider legs).