#TKOASD

[cursedwithwords]

Dumbledore: Harry has been through quite a shock recently, I should like us all to wait until things settle down before we tell him what happened.

James, who just came back to life to discover his wife is dead, his best friend was wrongly imprisoned in Azkaban for 12 years, and his son has been stuck in an abusive, neglectful home for 14 years, fresh out of patience: No :)

[icantspellthings]

(Me 7 years late to the discourse) god I've forgotten how rotten, gross, and putrid the atmosphere around Martin and Steven was in the beginning of the film. Steven your the adult here for fuck sakes this is definitely an inappropriate relationship to have with a 16 year old boy who is the son of a patient you killed! Ugh especially with how in the script Martin was supposed to kiss Steven when he gave him the watch instead of hugging him...and the secret meetings, the late night phone calls, meeting him in his office, lying to his colleagues about who Martin is. And then the "I'll fuck you and your mother like you wanted" quote....

[seapigeonn]

Just very normal things. Very normal normal things. Yeah sure this guys a victim of circumstance

[innocentiusxiv]

barry keoghan movies

[pricelessreviews]

[clownstho]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

So I asked my mom to do my hair yesterday because she offered! She asked me to pick out stuff to watch on netflix since her hands were covered in hair product. And before you ask yes my curls are popping.

The first thing I picked was Flashback (2023). There were interesting moments, but overall the tone was just. Kinda weird. I rated it in the moment as 3/5, and then a 5/10. Very average, unoffensive, not scary, mid acting, but the flashback sequence was admittedly pretty sick. Also Dr. Bones is just a little guy, justice for Dr. Bones.

So after moving on from the disappointment of that, the SECOND thing I picked was The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). It was a rich and beautiful experience the entire way through. The movie left nothing to the wayside, went hard (but subtle) the whole time, and was an overall unsettling experience.

TKoaSD is a movie that follows the Murphy family. Dr. Steven and Dr. Anna Murphy are the parents, Kim is their teen daughter, and Bob is their youngest son.

Dr. Steven is a freak. I hate this man. And yet I had so much sympathy for him despite him clearly deserving everything the narrative is doing to him. He's introduced right after a full shot of an open heart surgery, and his first conversation with a coworker is about expensive watch bands and how there's a patient he used to work with who will give the coworker a discount on a watch band with water resistance. He's a materialist. He flexes with his money. And he's been meeting up with some weird 16 year old and gifts him an expensive watch.

Dr. Steven has committed a crime. You could say he broke a commandment. You could even say that he's in for some divine retribution.

I won't say more than that. I don't really believe in the idea of spoilers, but I think it's important to experience the unfolding of this story. The sound design is equal parts beautiful and raw like the end of a live wire. The movie plays with its own quality, sometimes crisp and sometimes purposefully blurred. The sound of screeching instruments paired with raised camera angles captures the feeling of dissociation perfectly. The sirens are haunting every corner of the movie, like the horns of Revelations (if you're into that sort of thing).

The color work is simple, effective, and consistent. The sets are immaculate. There's a scene where the characters are looking for Kim, and they go through multiple rooms. Each room has this almost dollhouse-like stillness, void of life in a way that only the dread of a missing child can conjure.

The acting is well directed. Everyone has this eerie flat tone, and they say such out of pocket shit to each other all the time. There were multiple times when I simply went "God damn" to a line. I did snap when Anna went the fuck off though because, to be fair, she was right. If Anna had to deal with this alone, I feel like she would have simply Handled It, you know? But nah she's married to a very dense freak who loves avoiding responsibility. It makes more a more engaging story, of course.

I'm going to be thinking of this movie for so long. There is one scene that is so fucking sad that my heart ached. There are scenes of certain people crawling that truly brings to mind an animal with a broken spine, dragging itself to a safe place to die.

I give this one a 5 of 5. Excellent movie. I'm placing it on the shelf next to Hereditary.

[meyerlansky]

like i really have so much to say about tkoasd and the way the reaction to it exposes people's biases in favor of maintaining a deeply broken, imbalanced status quo based on Appearing Proper—whether that appearance is true or hiding actual fucking evil—and that's EXCLUSIVELY discussing the text we get in the movie, much less the subtext of grooming that steven is SOLELY responsible for

but literally all anyone ever wants to say about it is "lmao what a weirdo that kid was"

..............i should gif Killing Of A Sacred Deer.

[dilfgifs]

DILFGIFS 10K CELEBRATION: FAVORITE DILF PER MEMBER ↳ COLIN FARRELL — Merc (@mooneyknight)

A surgeon never kills a patient. An anaesthesiologist can kill a patient, but a surgeon never can.

[filmvirgo]

Steven Murphy: I'll bury you in the yard, and you'll rot.

[pause]

Martin: If you dig a hole in the yard, better make it a big one.

[cursedwithwords]

Fuck. The everyone comes back au might just be pure and simple prongsfoot now. But I've never written JUST prongsfoot before. I mean I'm fucking obsessed with it but I've never read? Any prongsfoot fics? And now I really want to do some research.

And yall. Please understand I had the title in mind BEFORE it became prongsfoot. But the title is. So. Prongsfoot. I really should have realized it was MEANT to be. Literally. You'll understand when I tell you the title later.

But please, I need prongsfoot fic recs so I can get a feel for everything. Preferably one-shots, but I'll take shorter long-fics too. I just don't have an enormous amount of time rn since I'm moving.

This fic is now completely separate from BOTS. The universe wants it to be prongsfoot, so it will be.

I sound calm and collected rn but I'm actually losing my mind.

[nevillelongsbottom]

the killing of a sacred deer

→ You know, not long after my dad died, someone told me that I eat spaghetti the exact same way he did. They said what an extraordinary impression this fact had made on them. Look at the boy, look how he eats spaghetti. Exactly the same way his father did. He sticks his fork in. He twirls it around, around, around, around, around. Then he sticks it in his mouth. At that time, I thought I was the only one who ate spaghetti that way. Me and my dad. Later, of course, I found out that everyone eats spaghetti the exact same way. Exact same way, exact same way. This made me very upset. Very upset. Maybe even, um, more upset than when they told me he was dead. My dad. I don't know if what is happening is fair, but it's the only thing I can think of that's close to justice.

[seapigeonn]

Many things to say

[innocentiusxiv]

martins DIRECT eye contact with steven when he tells him bob wet the bed. not beating anyyyyy allegations

[billy-crudup]

Can I have your MP3 player when you are dead? The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[likitysplitt]

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)

[sunsoakedsand]

yorgos lanthimos writing his screenplays