#it's just so good it's so good jkdhgkjfd
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sorry not about piss or whatever but I need someone to talk about humboldt county with petermax is so real@i'm gonna throw up
no listen humboldt county is literally on constant rotation in my head im like. i think that petermax fundamentally did something to me as a person. like the way that max reenacts his father's death but peter walks away, both from max and from his own father. the way he thinks humboldt is a vacation and max is an escape, and he's wrong on both counts. "don't take it so seriously." "we could get married, you and i." the way you think they're being set up as 'opposites attract' and max fixing peter's problems, but then max's whole deal is actually that he wants to be like peter and he can't and it kills him. the way peter can't choose anyone but he tries to choose max, but he does it wrong because he's still trying to choose la, too. the way humboldt couldn't save charlie and peter couldn't save max but max and humboldt couldn't actually save peter either. rosie's monologue about the storm after charlie's death and the shot where peter smokes weed for the first time and leans back into the sun and his features all get blotted out. they're inherently doomed and they're in love and they never say it or even kiss but you know!!!! you know.
#i think gay tragedy when narratively justified is just. peak cinema to me#like max Has to die not because he's gay or because he does drugs or even because of the greed jack accuses him of#it's because his whole neurosis is how he wants an escape but he also wants to be held and kept. he can't work it out in his head#and so he gets behind the wheel drunk etc. but that's not the point of him. and then peter replicating jack/rose/charlie#it's just so good it's so good jkdhgkjfd#anyway there IS piss and i think it's thematically important but also#i will always talk about humboldt county 2008 my beloved
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