#but really watch this movie

[ratguy-nico]

La Sociedad de la Nieve

Guys this is totally out of my usual content but i have to say I just saw "La Sociedad de la Nieve" a netflix film about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster, an historical event that happened here in my own country, Chile,.

I’m very tempted to write this in spanish just because of how proud I'm from this film, which is huge because this film is not from my countries Chile or Peru, is a co-production between Uruguay and Spain with actors from Uruguay and Argentina and it feel so wrong to talk about something so close to my home in a so foreign language. But I want you to see it. I really want you to see it cause este es un peliculón. Is one of the greatest film I have seen in a long time (2023 was truly a very good year for the cine)

The film goes about a rugby team from Uruguay who mean to travel to Chile but crash with la Cordillera de los Andes (Andes Mountains) and are left to their fate, having to depend only on each other.

Now I have some Trigger Warnings.

-the film is wonderful for its rawness and can be too much for some. I was literally trembling and mostly in shock while watching it.

-is based in a true story and is not a happy story.

-and the most important warning and a major spoiler if you don’t know nothing about it. The film talk a lot about cannibalism, is very explicit but not in a gore way, but in a how far one must go to survive way.

So yeah this film hit hard, but believe me it worth it. The cinematic, the performances, the sound, the script, the timing, everything is literally perfect, but what I love most about this movie is how it make the survivors and the victims of this horrible tragedy real people, most movies like this make them heroes or martyrs, but no. This movie is about a bunch of young men, about kids that went trough the impossible, trough unfair and pointless situation and how they support and save each other, because everyone was important, the ones that didn’t make it and the ones who survived.

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[kingcrackarttf]

They explored each other after this.

I saw this movie the day it came out, and I just haven't posted any of my stupid sketches of em yet lol.

[wlwanakin]

i think possibly my favorite anakinism and one i think about a rather unhealthy amount is his body language and how he almost always looks viscerally uncomfortable and vaguely like a child who is scared of getting slapped. even when he’s being confrontational he looks sooo defensive like wow girl you have never fully processed anything that’s happened to you and you will carry the weight of it forever

[nyaslashthreat]

shout out to when i told my dad about goncharov and he figured out it was fake because i told him "1973 martin scorsese film with robert de niro" and he said that wasn't possible because the godfather came out in 1972 and the godfather part II came out in 1974 and they wouldn't have had time to make a movie in between. a perfectly good jest, foiled by this man's weird and vast knowledge set

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[riocinn]

those were the lyrics right

[frogkik]

your light keeps burning 💛

[egophiliac]

So you know of other fairytale-theme school medias?

oh yeah, there's a few! the one I was thinking of specifically was Ever After High; I was mostly into the dolls, but I also really liked the webseries and the Shannon Hale novels! Apple was my definitely my favorite. 🍎

[dykecubes]

Ppl in 2020: if you like Minecraft YouTubers you should kill yourself NOWWWWW

Those same ppl now: so are you taking the chicken or the beef

[cutetanuki-chan]

I'm not sure how caption this, just hanging out near the pool

[gglinaa]

smth from the first movie

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[dogmaz]

[Skullduggery - 1983]