#alice darling

[anna-kendrick]

Anna Kendrick talks about her film "Alice, Darling"

[flipjack]

Anna Kendrick for the Independent Spirit Awards

[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 5 / HORROR & CRIME DRAMA)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

Common Themes:

-Dangerous girls (they ain't innocent)/ girlhood as violent

-Stressed out and melancholic female detectives and authors (lots of drinking/smoking)

-Mothers who've seen too fucking much to play games/I'm a good mother until it doesn't let up

-Women handling shit/getting shit done

-Mothers who didn't want to be mothers but here we fucking are so might as well handle shit

-Evil women who are also unfortunately hot

-Female sociopaths (not always negatively portrayed)

HAVEN'T WATCHED

The Royal Hotel

The Silent Twins

The Kitchen

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Sharp Objects

Killing Eve

Abigail

Heavenly Creatures

A Quiet Place Part 2

Panic Room

Alice, Darling

Blood Red Sky

Rust Creek

The Marsh King's Daughter

Pearl

Longlegs

GOOD STUFF (NEVER WATCHING AGAIN THOUGH!)

Bad Sisters (8/10) (sisters plan to kill their sister's abusive husband)

Yellowjackets (9/10) (love as cannibalism)

Candy (7.5/10) (she's just a killer lol)

Cruella (6.5/10)(help my mom is a narcissist and it's hereditary)

Jennifer's Body (7/10) (boys aren't people lmao)

Bird Box (8/10)

Under the Bridge (8/10)

PERSONAL NOTES

I watched Tragedy Girls years ago, and I remember being grossed out and having a lot of fun as well. If you like Jennifer's Body, you'll probably like Tragedy Girls, too. And if you like Tragedy Girls, you may also enjoy Thoroughbreds. All three have a twisted sense of girlpower.

The Call isn't scary so much as its nerve-wracking and upsetting. It's not gory (although there is violence), but it deals with heavy subject matter. I can, however, promise a satisfying ending. Even though I doubt it would put you at ease.

Horror is my least favourite genre so bear that in mind. I just hate jump scares (because I hate being startled) and I don't like gore though there are times where it doesn't bother me so much. So this is definitely not an exhaustive list on horror recs. Crime is as close as I usually get to such dark stuff so I put the dark crimes, psychological thrillers and horrors together. I don't even want to talk about these that much because I'm nauseous already.

Watch at your own risk.

[maaarine]

Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy, 2022)

[in-love-with-movies]

Alice, Darling (2022)

[mosneakers]

You know who we don’t hear enough of, and who I absolutely adore? Nym. I know Nymmie is only a toddler but I feel in my bones that she will be one of favorite Darlings of all time. And while we’re at it, how are Laurel and Maple?

Y'know, when you're right you're right— and you couldn't be more right my dear! There's just so many Darling grandbabies, and it's tough to give them all equal time in the story, but Nym and the other plant babies are definitely super special little beans and we def need to hear from them more! Now, the season is wrapping up with multiple different time skips in the documentary (4 months after election, 6 months after, and 9 months) but assuming we're talking right now, a few days after the incident—let's travel to Strangerville and check in:

Nym is of course wild and thriving as per usual! She still loves to play, and is adapting to becoming a big sister.

Alice went to school with Erwin, and they weren't close or anything, but they were friends. So she, as well as quite a few others in their circle are struggling to process his abduction while also balancing parenthood.

the plantbaby twins are also blooming into fully fledged little sprouts, and soon they'll be toddlers before we know it! They pretty much have all their milestones down. Laurel is still working on her first word and how to dance though, but she'll get it down. They're also discovering all the foods, both soft and finger foods. Maple loooves carrots, so Sage made sure to grow extra this year!

Always love being included in the copy/paste games and activities, but these types of questions are extra special and personalized, thank you for thinking of these Darlings and checking in 🌱💚🌱

[pinkpastels113]

my thoughts/comments/highlights on anna kendrick's call her daddy podcast episode

love that she is obsessed with bart's bees pomegranate chapstick

i want to see her naturally curly hair!! :(( im glad she's more comfortable with it now and loving it

kendrick is insecure about not having gone to college :((. i agree with cooper that if you know what you want to do and have the resources and pathway in mind to do it, you don't have to go to college but it is totally valid to be insecure about it bc of societal norms

she's been in the industry since she was 10, and she talked about her journey that is further explained in her book scrappy little nobody

her parents thought and realized that she would be okay/"she made it" when she bought her first home in her 20s and brought them to it

brittany texts her "i know you're not gonna replyy but-" a lot

"brittany brings the party, i bring the grumpiness" "please call brittany if you need help with party invitations"

pp4

she has no idea if it's happening

if rebel is adamant about it she would do it

everyone is so busy and successful that it's impossible though to get everyone in the same room but the best reason for her to do a pp4 would be to have and be with everyone in the same room again

HAHAHAH HER GAY/joking PANIC ABOUT KRISTEN STEWART

she didn't tell anyone that she was doing alice darling when filming and even for a while when it came out bc she didn't want anyone to tell her to not do it. bc she just got out of an abusive relationship herself

she literally went to couples' therapy with the abusive ex and thought she was crazy in front of the licensed professional omg

she doesn't have a clear answer for "what are the universal signs of a red flag in a toxic relationship" bc how are you supposed to get into the mind of someone who is trying their best to hide them and emotionally manipulating you? you also don't spend your life looking for those red flags, they just happen like bear traps in a forest (lmao pp2) sooo it's really hard. also sometimes, people question their own memory and sense of reality and have "did this really happen" moments afterwards

she thinks her ex truly believed that he was doing nothing wrong and that she was the crazy one. bc he is not an actor or performer

cooper: it's so hard being with someone that you love for so long and then it suddenly turns abusive or manipulative, like you can't just leave when someone says "why don't you just leave"

cooper: i think it would be weird to not be affected by someone that manipulated you in a way (even years later) bc it distorts your reality

it felt like jumping a cliff suddenly pitching herself to be in charge of the woman of the hour movie. she's terrified that she's "the most experienced person there"

the camera angles in the parking lot scene truly portrayed the dead silence and terror and anticipation of a woman walking alone in the dark in a parking lot with nobody else around

there were a bunch of scenes in the movie where she was glad/noticed how being a woman director made a difference to how it would be portrayed and understood by female audiences about what exactly is happening. she is okay with the 20% of male audiences who prob wouldn't understand

kendrick is very avoidant and not in the mood for dating right now; she knows she has prospects though

she will not even go into a conversation with a man romantically if he has not been or currently in therapy. if they do start something she wants them to do couples therapy despite her previous experiences with it. it is not a guarantee of anything tho!!

what do you bring to a relationship?

anna: i will be the bodyguard and tell the waiter that they got the wrong order. i feel like i'm compensating for my short height

she feels like her humor is so dry sometimes that people mistook it as she being dead serious when she was not.

[imthxtgood]

'ALICE, DARLING' (2022) ; Mary Nighy.

[becabeale143]

[whenfatecollides]

“Sometimes I get a word or a saying stuck in my head. Like a phrase that keeps surfacing, and it will just repeat itself again and again and again, until it’s all I can hear. And for a while it was this voice asking me ‘What are the chances?’ What are the chances of what? Um, I don’t know. Maybe... ‘What are the chances I don’t come out on the other side? What are the chances I don’t want to?’ And, lately, it’s someone asking me ‘Where will you put your shame?’ And it’s my voice, but it isn’t. You can give it to us.”

ALICE, DARLING (2022) dir. Mary Nighy

[143bc]

[anna-kendrick]

Anna Kendrick as Alice in Alice, Darling (2022)

[annasmidnights]

I know it’s a stretch👀😅

(I’ve posted this three times and messed up three times)

[flipjack]

Gotta warm up the pipes!

[rapturousrot]

Alice, Darling (2023) dir. Mary Nighy

[hollywood-fashion]

Anna Kendrick in Leo Lin promoting Alice, Darling in NYC on January 10, 2023.