#it's about the process of suffering in fiction. i feel like films nowadays don't really allow the characters space to hurt? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kindaeccentric · 2 months ago

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every once in a while I think about the sequence in the first Mission Impossible with the agents getting killed off and how darkly erotic the whole thing was, like, Brian De Palma, can I talk to you for a second

#the tension! the kills! it was like an exploitation horror movie for me. my conscious brain was devastated and distressed #but the subconscious was chanting 'BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD'#the second mission impossible was generally much worse BUT #the moment of 'ethan's' torture and death? and nyah sacrificing herself? same reaction. it was so!!! congrats john woo #i just like whump. but not all. it's about the emotional impact not the injuries #it's about the process of suffering in fiction. i feel like films nowadays don't really allow the characters space to hurt?#to really sit with the distress with the physicality of it and the psychological impact #needless to say I loved Monkey Man for example #devastating ending. but really impactful #it just scratches my brain right

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