#film gaze

[sentimentalmoments]

Classic cars and film

[hinamie]

so just know, I'm healing / even though it don't feel like it

insp

[frankensteinsfairy]

“However vast her narcissism, the Young-Girl doesn't love herself, what she loves is "her" image, that is, something that is not only foreign and exterior to her, but that possesses her, in the full sense of the word. The Young-Girl lives under the tyranny of this ungrateful master.” (Theory of the Young-Girl, Tiqqun)

[highfantasy-soul]

I've seen a little trend of (mostly) men being shocked and annoyed at how much sensuality was in this newest episode of The Acolyte and I think it's time to re-introduce 'the male gaze' vs 'the female gaze' and how prevalent it is in fiction.

Those same guys don't complain when women are shown topless in bed, the sheet only covering their ass as the full curve of their back is illuminated while the male lead buttons up his pants and smizes forlornly out the window.

They don't bat an eye at 'Slave Leia's' costume or James' Bond's exploits or the gratuitous nudity and sex in Game of Thrones centered on the male gaze. They don't question dehydrated men with bulging veins screaming at their enemies as they flex.

But the moment there's sensuality for the gaze of the fem lead, all of a sudden it's "soapy" it's "fanfic" it's "ridiculous".

Why is that? Why are you so ok with sexuality when it's from the male gaze, but the MOMENT it switches to female, you think it's not to be taken seriously anymore? All of a sudden, it's not 'fit for the public', it's to be relegated to the dark corners of the internet and not spoken of and MOST DEFINITELY shouldn't find it's way onto our screens.

Was Qimir in that episode sexy as fuck? Yeah. Was that what the episode was about? Partially - but it was so much more than that, too. Unlike movies where women are just there to be ogled at by the male audience and have nothing of importance going on with the plot, the Acolyte showed both the man and woman in those scenes as important players in this story with depth and nuance that yes, included sexuality, but was not limited to it.

Men jack off to 'slave Leia' all the time - why is it suddenly disgusting when a man shows up on screen in a sexy way that's NOT dehumanizing to him? Would you have preferred Qimir in a slave costume being held hostage by the Hutts? (feel free to draw fan art of that *cough* what was that? I didn't say anything *cough*) Would that have made it 'not fanfic' to you? Or are only women relegated to those roles? Only women are allowed to skinny dip in the ocean and then talk to the MALE lead all dripping wet and naked. For a man to do that is...well....it's silly!!! It's fanfic!! That's not what we're supposed to see!!

[icedsodapop]

I don't see enough analysis about May December and how Whiteness played a role in Joe's continued abuse at Gracie's hands. How Joe's racial other-ness being the only Korean kid in his White neighbourhood made him more vulnerable to Gracie's abuse. How Gracie's Whiteness made it easier for her to get away with marrying her rape victim and starting a family with him in broad daylight. How Gracie's White womenhood allowed her to live with some semblance of normality as a wife and a mum and a small business owner in suburbia despite being a registered child sex offender. All things that Black disability activist Ola Ojewumi pointed out, happened to the real-life woman Gracie is based on in this thread.

And then, that same White female gaze that Gracie projected onto Joe, the gaze that dehumanized him and viewed him as nothing but a sexual object, is also perpetuated by Elizabeth.

[lilyplaid]

WHICH ONE OF YOU DREW THIS? >:0

I've wasted too many hours trying to figure it out. Reverse image search didn't help. The "source" of this image came up as Pinterest. Show yourselves.

[namedvesta]

𝐼𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑖-𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛 (𝟣𝟫𝟫𝟦).

[lefthandarm-man]

Steve Rogers // Captain America Captain America: Civil War (2016)

the way he looks at bucky (part 1, part 2, part 3)

(bucky vers.)

[upinyourcortex]

a quiet place day one is just a 2 hour long campaign for big brown eyes supremacy

[badela]

Saltburn (2023)

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Director: Emerald Fennell

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Cinematography: Linus Sandgren

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“Lots of people get lost in Saltburn.”

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[power-chords]

Logs on three hours later to blog about The Zone of Interest: I can’t expect viewers to pick up on cultural forms of representation they have no cause to even recognize (at least here in American English departments you still get Hellenism as the default). But I saw these reactions to the ending that were just like… oh, man. Like if there is one thing I could stress to anybody who watches the film and feels conflicted about that decision, or confused about the attitude of it, it’s to try to keep in mind the centrality of archiving in the Jewish consciousness. Telling/re-telling (inscribing/re-inscribing, producing/reproducing) as explicit meta-commentary — where you are being constantly reminded of the text’s own structuring and framework, its (re-)generation and interpretation across a living historical continuum — if there were an essential “mode” to Jewish narrative, that would probably be it. I think this is being lost on a lot of people. It’s also why reactionaries hate critical theory.

[iinevitable]

Shelley duval<3

[penaltyboxboxbox]

Ryan Blaney at Richmond, 2024

[mycrystalball]

Domênica, Toda de branco... (2024), dirigido por Maria Clara Portela e Raíssa Anjos

[namedvesta]

𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒

Charlotte Le Bon, Falcon Lake (𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟥)

[peepingcreek]

Poor Things.

list of things:

She would of had her period, and had A TIME understanding it

She was beautiful and fuckable every second of her adult life, not once did her maladies make her stinky, drip, rot, putrify or otherwise act like something organic.

She would have experienced pain and anguish at the invasion of a penis without any foreplay. Not mild curiosity.

She would NEVER have reached for the cucumber. Not as a toddler.

She had no reason to welcome back Godwin and his assistant. True enlightenment to her past would have brought horror and disgust, a dark mixture of confusion, not immédiate forgivness and reintegration.

All of the sex scenes were shot like a porn, not from her perspective encountering the male body for the first time.

Exihibitionist lesbianism is not true feminist enlightenment.

Bella would have tried to understand love, not just her Clitoris. Being a human nécessitates encountering love, even if you don't feel it yourself.