boogiejuice

[boogiejuice]

Film Noir Movie Ticket Stubs (enlarged image) Available on Redbubble

[boogiejuice]

behind the scenes of hirokazu kore-eda's monster (2023)

[boogiejuice]

Fleetwood Mac on stage at the Capital Centre in Largo, MD - July 27, 1976. Photos by Paul Kasko.

[boogiejuice]

i need to learn every language in the world so i can know if the subtitles are right or wrong

[boogiejuice]

love watching a movie and then coming on here and reblogging some gifs of what i watched like i’m making a little announcement about where i’ve been

[boogiejuice]

Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

[boogiejuice]

[boogiejuice]

listening to music… and having a little coffee

[boogiejuice]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook // Interview with the Vampire episode 11 (2024) dir. Levan Akin

He lost his Hindu-originated name “Arun” when he was trafficked from Dehli as a child, was renamed “Amadeo” by his paedophile Maker the vampire Marius, then finally assigned “Armand” by the Roman coven before they sent him to France. He’s also lost his voice in a way, shown code-switching and adopting different accents in different settings. Throughout world history, colonised peoples have often been forced to adopt the languages and names of their oppressive colonisers as a way to erase their cultural identities.

Armand’s history was essentially colonised. His personal sexual trauma is an allegory for wider colonial trauma. This idea was explored similarly in Park Chan-wook’s 2016 film The Handmaiden, where the character Hideko’s forced exposure to pornographic Japanese literature as a child is meant to parallel the colonial oppression of the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The only evidence remaining of Armand’s experiences of sexual and colonial violence is this painting The Adoration of the Shephards With a Donor that hangs in the Louvre. Another cruel irony here is that ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’ is an episode of Jesus’s nativity. Arun as a (presumably) Hindu boy was used as a prop in a Christian narrative. The one historical document that exists of his mortal life is a depiction of his religious assimilation. Completely divorced from his roots, with no identity outside the roles his abusers assigned him, Armand, Amadeo, and Arun “were cut loose and dead like children turned to stone.” Being immortalised, “donated”, and placed on display in a European museum, a space he’s not even really allowed to access, for the mostly-white gaze is a clear metaphor for colonisers’ persisting theft of cultural artefacts belonging to their victims.

The only consolation this journey has for Armand is creative inspiration. He took Amadeo, trapped in the horror of his youth for the entertainment of others, and transferred that idea into the play My Baby Loves Windows to torture Claudia.

Armand, colonialism, and the weaponisation of anti-Blackness by Deah

[boogiejuice]

[boogiejuice]

Havana Rose Liu, Vogue Thailand.

[boogiejuice]

snoopy items by sissi.ceramics

[boogiejuice]

Pink Floyd filming Live at Pompeii double exposure, Paris France, December 1971

[boogiejuice]

there is something sooo embarrassing about everything i have done and will do

[boogiejuice]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

[boogiejuice]

Blur For Tomorrow, 1993

[boogiejuice]

the lemon twigs 🦢⭐️☁️🌀