#and eric and alex

[operationandre]

alex being an art kid.

he's his art teacher's favorite student. his assignments are hung on the classroom's walls and bragged about to any student who asks about them. his notebooks are filled with doodles and colored pencils. the ends of his fingers are constantly stained with charcoal.

there's an art museum near alex's school that's planning an exhibit to show off local talent, and alex's teacher signs him up before he can say no. he at least gets to pick which pieces go in: a watercolor painting of a sunflower field in their town, an intricate drawing of his parents when he had forced them to pose for him a while ago, and a sculpture he made of a certain person from his past.

he hadn't expected anyone to come to the exhibition (well, other than his parents and eric at least). when he walked towards his own pieces, he spotted a familiar mop of blond hair. john.

"this me?" john asked, pointing straight at the sculpture.

alex's face flushed bright red. it was. no matter how long ago their friendship had broken apart, they had never grown hostile towards one another, but alex worried john would hate him after this. to be fair, it was alex's feelings that pushed john away. why wouldn't he be disgusted now?

"it looks beautiful." john turned to face alex and laughed. "not just because it's me."

all worries faded when alex saw the grin on john's face. throughout the day, the two would cling to one another, observing other art and sometimes making fun of it. eric joins them around lunchtime, and the three leave together. something about alex's past and present combining is overwhelming, but he loves it.

[kissofadeadgirl]

Brandon Lee behind the scenes of The Crow (1994)

[sonjackcarl]

[gutturalsecrete]

[deadghost176]

why does NONE ever mention Alex as an art kid? especially his bag with patches that he carries during the shooting, and the drawing of an elephant in his room (a nod to the movie and the 'elephant in the room') i dunno I just really like his character

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[manichewitz]

what i say: i’m fine

what i mean: when sam and dean are investigating andy gallagher, a guy who they fully think killed someone with his mind, they find a massive bong in his car. more specifically dean says hey sam look at this massive bong and then picks it up, turns to sam, and smiles. smash cut to sam and dean in the impala, eating food together for no discernible reason. now im no expert here but they obviously used that bong didnt they. they broke into this guys car and took his bong and smoked his weed and then got the munchies. supernatural is a show steeped in subtext and that subtext includes the incredibly vital fact that sam and dean winchester stopped their telepath murder investigation to smoke the telepath murder weed in the middle of the day and then got on with their case like nothing happened. who’s doing it like them

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Crow concept art by Darren Gilford and Peter Pound (c. 1992)

[explosivities]

you look like someone i could bury

[7smiles]

The way Alex lacks emotional attachment to everything and only kissed Eric as a last hurrah + experimental thing is going to kill me. Because if he cared about Eric the way Eric cared about him, he wouldnt have gunned him down mid sentence. He wouldnt have dragged his friend into this.

Alex being a truly evil person is so fascinating to me because when you watch Zero Day, you get so much introspection to Andre and Cal's emotional capacity. Alex's emotional capacity is exempt from this film because he doesn't have any at all. He has flat affect up until he smiles when telling Eric his laid out plan for their destruction.

I see people complain about Alex not having enough substance as a character, but Gus Van Sant did such a wonderful job at showing us who exactly Alex is with SO little framing. Alex is privileged, we see this in his home, his freedom, his lax parents, his ability to afford weapons- You're told this through his piano, and the cost that comes with his piano lessons. You get all of this information in very little time and not a lot of it is explained to you, Alex's character simply doesn't require monologuing.

Despite Alex's privilege, he is still troubled at school. I do think Alex is pure evil because of how he killed Eric, but there are other things i think about when diving into Alex's character. Eric's death aside, I'd like to note that I read Alex as autistic. He's visibly easily targeted, naive, his speech patterns are not like any of the "normal" characters, he gets very upset when things dont go his way (Piano scene). He has that scene in the lunch room where he seems very overstimulated, and as i mentioned before, he has flat affect. Not only that, but Alex holds a childish naivety to him- He believes that the only way to move on from his highschool torment is to kill his peers. He does not realize that things will get better, he doesnt know that there is life beyond Highschool- We have already established that he is very well off and set up for the future. I dont think autism makes his behavior okay at all, but it explains so much and this is very applicable to real life shooters as well.

Alex doesn't care, he does things for himself. I dont think he's a narcissist, but I do think he is delusional or something similar. The only time he mentions unsettlement is when he quotes "So foul and fair a day I have not seen," but I dont think it counts- He most likely only quoted this as a jab at Macbeth being a required class text + found it ironically funny that he was causing carnage and yet it was a victory for him.

Anyway, if you got this far, thanks for reading. Alex's character is painfully human and his behaviors are so interesting to read into.

[thewebspinner]

[yoyo-bonewolf]

Great movie

[iheartcal69]

spot the difference

[sonjackcarl]

[decocaffee]

yeaaah so... the other movie but make them girls

aaaaand slight nudity under the cut....!! 😟

[dethtech4000]

someone asked me to draw them

[bronybrian]