#i think this is an epidemic actualy

[edwardnebula]

i realized how short surge is compared to lano like wow... itty bitty

"so this is how drippy feels"

she sure is itty bitty.

Not sure she enjoyed that fact at first.

[far-butter]

Ok I have very mixed feelings about this Fleur de Tonnerre (eng title if any??) film about Hélènne Jegado. Also I’m drunk and should be sleeping so it does sound like an appropriate moment to make a meta so here’s my philosophical review no one on the earth asked for :

They somehow managed to have the most Breton element of the cast being the horse, which trails the wagon with the bishop. Of all the Bretons in the world and all the people who claim being one despite it being bs they didn’t managed to have one in the main cast. The actors accents somehow made me laugh because they’re super not-Breton, save maybe for the mother in the beginning. Man I DO recognize accents from here and that’s...not this. Also the outfits are gorgeous but probably not all from here? I think they kinda mixed them up? The hats aren’t even the same? Looks like Bro-Gernev (’cause our local trad clothes are black and grey I think??) to me but ok, I admit I’m not very knowledgeable about this stuff.

The story is romancized af. They made a sobby love story that has scenes making me uncomfortable personnally and also I’m not fond of Benjamin Biolay’s acting and his character rubs me the wrong way. There’s also a rape scene, just so you know in case you intend to watch. These sex scenes absolutly add nothing to the story. Also free titties for no reason? There is already a trope about Breton women being dumb sluts, thank you very much, we didn’t ask for more (tell my grandmother “Children From Different Fathers In A Tiny Village” about what good it does).

Jegado’s killed many children and members of the same families and somehow it isn’t in the movie? Also the context with the cholera’s epidemic which make impossible to have the exact account of her victims and the fact that her trial was made during war, with a legist who was too busy being dead on the battlefield to come and the facts that she was not executed for her numerous murders but for the murders of rich and influencial peoples and was condamned on their bare accusations without proofs because of basic classism are somehow skipped too? Also excuse me but given how her trial went I don’t think mr. Judge was nice and understanding. Probably more like “ok another dumb peasant who doesn’t differenciate flour from poison”.

The scenery in Breton lands is very well done imo tho? The atmosphere is here. I feel home, but two centuries ago so well done for the settings! Kudos guys!

Peoples from Rennes/Roazhon being casually condescending about Low-Britanny/Bro-Gwened/Morbihan sounds about right. I can say firsthand it’s still the case. We’re still dumb peasants in their minds, especially if we are attached to our culture.

I kinda like her psychology even if it is made-up? I don’t think there is actualy anything on her childhood about if she was mistreated or not irl? It kinda echoes to the “Mean/Austere Breton Woman” trope and seeking attention/love seems awkward to justify becoming a murderer but ok. The mother is kinda realist tho? It’s a trope but I see how bits of it are true. I have empathy for Hélènne. I don’t think she was like that irl but it feels good to imagine so.  I like how she casually half-confess her murders to people. She reminds me of Arya Stark lol. You should have make a women society to kill rapists and eat the rich gal. I would have rooted for you and you would have been my anar/feminist idol for ever lol.

Becoming a servant of an Ankou. Bitch I’m myself a devotee and I don’t kill people (I feel the urge to add “yet” to save the street cred). Also the actual Ankou idol isn’t from that town, but it terrified generations of children and I too couldn’t make a film about Breton without showing it so I understand the hype and inaccuracy. I never saw it in person but geez if it isn’t a replica then shit’s terrifying with the lights. Just so you know, it is not a cult of an Ankou per see we/most Bretons have, as an Ankou was christiannized as Sant-Erwan/Saint Yves of Truth. I have the intuition that the scene with the outdoors autel is 200% accurate. Yeash, people here use(d?) to ask the death of someone as a favor. Also the boat-sinking culture was a thing and the lanterns on cows were a thing too. Anyway, again the settings are cool 15/10. Would absolutly love to have the same autel with the skull and all it’s badass af.

The actress is not only not Breton tho, she also looks nothing like the actual Jegado. I guess real Breton women are not enough for Hollywood-like standards so she had to be young, thin, with straight blond hair (sorry to break your fantazies here but most Bretons are the exact opposite. Most people in the lands have the dark hair-eyes with clear shinings combo and that’s also how you see the genetics aren’t the same as the rest of France. Also we often look stoned -bc we tend to zone-out/daydream a lot more than other I observed- but at the same time we often have those intense soul-piercing eyes when we zone back in lol. Don’t know how to explain, just destabilizing eyes are a common and typical feature here because of the colors/eyes shapes). Some comparisons so you can make your own opinion :

Overall :

Not much plot. Things that could have thicken it are skipped. Settings are cool. The flashback cuts are well-thought. Sometimes very hooking and realistic, sometimes not so much (yeah no. You don’t calm people having a melt down by yelling on them). My advice would have been “more murders less sex scenes”.  Bretons are depicted kind of as the “brave/good-hearted and dumb/helpless” tropes. Yeah, well it deserves its 2,5/5 note I guess. Would be 1,5 otherwise but I had a good time and we already don’t have much rep and even less accurate/not harmful rep so I’m not going to pull down lol. Let’s say it’s superior to “Un ticket pour l’espace” and of course can’t ever get worse than “Nos plus belles vancances” (aka the ultimate insult to Brittany and Breton people and cultures and a punch in the face of a film). I watched The Woman in Black before and I’d say it’s kinda the same pace of story, with no screamers of course. You can absolutly find it boring and with a pace either too slow or too fast I think. Idk maybe I just meh-level liked it maybe just because it’s Brittany rep, maybe I wouldn’t have liked it at all otherwise lol.

[wemblingfool]

When Swine Flu was threatening the us, the CDC rightfully had a big freak out about it, afraid that it would become an epidemic, if not a pandemic.

They made a big deal about it. People actually listened. People more or less heeded the guidelines, and as such, very little actualy came of Swine Flu. Following the CDC guidelines actually worked, so nothing happened.

Afterwards, knowing how americans are, I was actually worried this would be a problem. I felt it needed to hit a bit harder to give people a taste of how bad the possibility could be. Because the way it was, people would likely look back and think because nothing happened (because they obeyed the guidelines and took it seriously), that there was no threat and we shouldn't listen to the CDC anymore.

I've been terrified that the next threat of an epidemic would be a disaster because people would go "swine flu was a hoax, so is this!" And I've seen many variations of this exact argument, the last several weeks.

I have to constantly remind myself these morons, and the ones screaming "OPEN UP!" are an extreme minority that for whatever reason are getting their way.