#like you can make up this much good of writing nowadays ya'll

[pixieswashere]

When creators on Arcane S2:

that fucking amanda overton io9 interview is giving me so much psychic damage.

straight admitting that the only reason they ever bothered engaging with themes of police brutality in the first place is so that it would be the juiciest drama for her endgame cop/convict enemies-to-lovers ship.

caitlyn 'atones' for her little oopsie doopsie foray into fascism and authoritarian violence against zaun by... letting one (1) person go as a personal favour to her girlfriend, and fighting ambessa to save piltover.

don't worry about having to take accountability to all the other people she hurt and whose lives she ruined! she's fixing her mistakes guys!

cait feels the need to live up to her mother's expectations and the kiramman legacy! that's why she finds out about the kiramman vents and immediately uses them to gas the undercity, and also usurps the council's power as Supreme Leader! it's what cassandra would have wanted.

also just. i don't know if this is just me, but...

is this a weird thing to say? a weird way to say it? it feels like a really weird thing to say. and a weird way to say it. why would you say it like that. amanda...

[cartoonfanorwhatever]

Okay, I watched 'Only Yesterday' a couple of days ago. And it was indeed quite the movie. I don't even really know how to talk about it from an emotional standpoint. So i'll start more technical.

The animation was top notch as is to be expected. It was never confusing if you where in present day or in flashback due to how the colours change in the past. Making them more 'dull' and fading at the edges of the frame to indicate the fragility of memories. But even when memory, fantasy and present day start melting together it was never in question what was what. And man, those moments of pure fantasy where utterly beatiful.

The music was also great, it doesn't stand out as much as it does in other ghibli flics, like in Totoro or in Howl, where the melodies remain stuck in my mind for days after. I can't quite recall a single track but the mood was always perfectly set and not a single note was out of place.

But let's not forget to mention that the movie also made perfect use of silence. Moments without music or talking to help perfectly set the tone for a scene or create tension. These moments stayed with me just as much if not sometimes more than some of the other scenes.

The characters where once again so, so, human. Such beatifully ordinary people. You could walk across these characters in a busy street without giving them a second glance. And I'm so grateful i got the privilage to be focused in on their lives for a bit.

The scene where the family just sits together to cut and eat a full pineapple for the first time will stick with me maybe forever. But not just because it was written so perfectly (realistic). Back when i was a kid there was this old series of animated series. Maybe ya'll know it. "Once upon a time..."

And i watchad and rewatch a good handfull of those in my time. But my favourite was "Once upon a time... man." Which told the history of mankind from caveman days all up to and beyond modern day. One of the later episodes takes place early 20th century, don't remember exactly when. But the family it was following that episode saw and bought the newly imported bananas for the first time.

And that was something so profound to little 8 y/o me. The idea of something that I'm so used to enjoying arriving here for the first time. Globalisation at work before it was all encompassing yet. Nowaday i can hardly imagine not being able to get something created in another, distand part of the world. But watching that, and now also these pineapple scenes, I can experience what it was like for the world to get smaller and the options for the 'normal' people to get 'bigger' all at the same time.

That was kind of a side tangent but it was something I deeply experienced while watching this. A kind of themathic sequel for something I experienced in childhood.

Back to Only Yesterday.

I did not expect this story to be a love story as much as it ended up being. It was a pleasant surprise though, because the chemistry between the 2 leads was quite pleasant. And them getting closer trough sharing their own experiences growing up, while going on the car rides was interesting both writing- and cinematografy-wise.

Also I would absolutely delight watching the people who got their panties in a twist over 'Turning Red' react to this film. They'd go absolutely feral. (If you know, you know...)

I highly recommend watching this film. Especially when you feel you're on a turning point in your own life. It'll leave you inspired if not at least deeply moved.

A perfectly made slice of life in the truest sense of the phrase.

Next I'll be watching 'Porco Rosso' (which i'm actually already halfway trough as I'm finishing writing this) which promises to be great fun.

The previous and first post in this "review series" can be found: here