#love lies bleeding spoilers

[theburialofstrawberries]

Jackie says she was bullied as a fat kid and learned "how to fight back;" she goes crazy in Vegas when she hallucinates someone calling her fat. I think there's a direct line connecting this with Jackie's fight instinct to Lou constantly reiterating that Jackie killed J.J., and Lou locking Jackie inside the house. Over the payphone, Jackie's foster mother, curt: "Stay away from us, you monster." Lou doesn't know she is treating Jackie like a monster. Jackie can't have that feeling. Perhaps that's why she needs to run away to Vegas and win so bad: to disarm her size and her strength, to have those qualities be unimpeachable, only for show and admiration.

Jackie in turn is tripping all of Lou's wires. We know Lou thinks her mother ran away, and fears that Lou Sr. maybe killed her. But Lou Sr. goads her about an even deeper fear: that Lou's mom ran away not only to get away from her husband, but also to get away from her awful, complicit daughter. (Lou is so terrified this is true that she has red nightmares about it all movie long. When she's more afraid, there's more red on the screen, like the glow from the hospital's Coke vending machine when Lou Sr. confronts her about J.J.'s body.) If Jackie's response to being perceived as a monster is to fight, Lou's is to take flight: exit the situation for fear of abandonment. She comes close to doing this in the confrontation with Jackie after dinner with J.J. and Beth (a confrontation aborted only because of the lingering F.B.I. agent), but J.J.'s murder flings the shit into the fan.

Lou does everything in her power to cover up J.J.'s murder, and then Daisy's, so that Jackie doesn't leave her. But everything Lou does reminds Jackie that she's a monster (Daisy naked, victorious, whispering: "Lou doesn't want you anymore"). When Lou frees Jackie from her binds in the shed, Jackie takes off running, so caustic is the effect of this reminder ("I wish I never met you!") We know she's not running away for fear that Lou will kill her, because Jackie only really calms down when Lou convinces her that 1) she still desires Jackie, and (2) Jackie is not morally culpable for the murders of J.J. and Daisy. She was forced, for fear of Beth's life, for fear of Lou Sr. (Lou in her recounting was also forced to sleep with Daisy. Everyone is only ever forced to do bad things; no one is ever a bad person. Convenient!)

Lou has freed Jackie from several mental hang-ups. So Jackie joyfully reclaims her size and strength and breaks a guy's arms as easy as wringing a wet t-shirt. And Lou is now more aware of Jackie's inner turmoil than she was before. In the last scene, when she slips quietly out of the truck to kill Daisy, she is loathe to disturb Jackie's sleep, yes, and also her conscience.

[dr-lizortecho]

New Moon // Love Lies Bleeding

[oreolesbian]

ripping my hair out over the drug motif in love lies bleeding (lou smokes and hears multiple radio commercials about the dangers of smoking; jackie takes steroids that turn her into a literal giant) all culminating in representing love as the most potent of drugs - even more powerful than anything else we see, because it’s love that leaves you bleeding (whether emotionally or quite literally).

jackie’s love for lou driving her to commit murder for her

lou’s love for her family leaving her trapped in a cycle of violence and guilt over her past

daisy’s love for lou leading to her murder

beth’s love for her husband and her kids leaving her in an abusive relationship

and even! jackie and lou’s love sending them spiraling into the events of the film but also setting them free

i’m going wild over here!!!

[trashyeggroll]

literally not even 30 minutes into it and they have u hauled huh

[gothixdreaming]

[aceaatlas]

i’ve just finished watching love lies bleeding and 1. they both so hot 2. THAT SHIT WAS FUCKED, but 3 (the reason i’m coming on here) did anyone else notice the twilight breaking dawn parallel in the scene where they’re both huge and running away together? please tell me the rest of y’all noticed that i need someone to talk to

[novelconcepts]

And the award for the funniest delivery of “nope!” in cinematic history goes to Kristen Stewart.

[thealexandriaarchives]

I finally saw Love Lies Bleeding and of course in the middle of the glorious carnage of chain smoking revenge flick and muscle ladies and 'yer just like ya fatha' I of course latched on to the one character no one talked about or seems to like.

I'm so fond of Daisy though? She's THE manic pixie yandere who's been in love with Lou for years, she saw her shot open up, and she was there with a handmade card, a cigarette that wasn't her own brand, and a series of very carefully worded offers that didn't give away her cards, no hesitation.

I'd need a rewatch but I imagine she got fixated when she was buying off her back when Lou was involved with her Dad's business, and she's meant to be a parallel to her sister? (The black eye on the Daisy card / I heard about that) But she's still fixated after Lou has tried to get away ('Because he was going to kill you'/'You don't know anything about love')

In another world where Lou liked the dumb blonde who did Etsy crafts persona but also was a master manipulator and ride or die bitch who would need shower sex, not tub time after a couple murders, with they would have run her dad's empire within a year.

Unfortunately Lou needs to be the protector but I am glad they gave Daisy that ending where she got to go out the way she absolutely would have wanted, post-coital cigarette and all.

[neetgirlgeeks]

going fucking crazy. Jackie’s duckie pouch is the cutest and it doesn’t help whenever she screams fuck.FACK- after killing daisy sounds like a duck. quack

[degenderates]

and if i told y'all in a certain new release movie a dyke with loser butch swag throatrapes her abusive dad...

[mrawkweird]

I enjoyed Love Lies Bleeding. I thought it was creative and thrilling movie. Also how can you resist those muscles.😉

It was straight up muscle porn and as the movie was going I'm thinking to myself "Is what I think is happening HAPPENING?" and sure fucking enough it happened. I got my She-Hulk movie.

[uwusillygirl]

Oh no I didn't mean the fucking scenes being hokey! I meant specifically the scenes of Jackie being (rightfully and justifiably, imo) angry and how they portrayed her in those moments. I would have preferred if the "female rage" so to say didn't lean as much into absurdity as it did, I don't know if the cartoonish focus on veins bulging out to "explain" and underpin the decision of a woman deciding to kill an abuser was necessary for me (personally! I absolutely get what you say you liked about it and like I said, I enjoyed the film plenty too!). I had zero issue with the giant scene in the end because I think that's where the metaphor worked well for me, less so in the bits where they made Jackie's actions seem particularly steroid-fueled. I love hearing your thoughts about the film though and am glad to hear you enjoyed it so much. Finally some delicious gays do crime film for the gal pals... the lesbos... the dykes... wish I could tell 13 year old me to hold on because one day Kristen Stewart will locate her niche of a mob film where she gets to eat pussy.

yeah i totally hear what you're saying!!! i honestly liked it in the other spots you didn't, too! i think it's just a matter of personal taste (and also think it's so awesome that the movie said and did enough for people to have differing views!!!!)

[akermanch]

Love Lies Bleeding Minimal Spoilers

[trashyeggroll]

Love Lies Bleeding spoilers read after watching!!

What did you think of Love Lies Bleeding? Wasn’t at gritty as I thought it would be but still a good time. Katy O was fantastic but Kristen Stewart really impressed me. Her delivery of “huh” after Jackie points the gun on her killed me. Like Lou was flabbergasted and it was 😂 She needs to be in more comedies lol

Listen… not to be too old or to downplay the good stuff that has come out of that studio but as soon as I found out it was through A24 I assumed we were in for some weirdness lol. They had me for the first half of the movie and the second half I kinda had to watch like this 🫣. Violence, I am not usually too squeamish about so like the Dave Franco stuff was intense but the um, tripping on steroids during the pageant scene was… a lot for me personally… Maybe more so bc I’m someone who recently birthed a human baby from the other end LOL. There’s also SO MUCH SQUELCHING happening throughout this movie it’s 😭😭😭

K Stew was definitely hilarious the whole way through in a way that only really she gets away with these days, and I love it. Sabina Wilson 🤜🏼🤛🏼 Lou when it comes to absolute lesbian playboy energy and a penchant for violent crime.

Bitchhhhh i am looking

[femslashspuffy]

I will literally never stop thinking of the Kristen Stewart toe sucking scene

[aubstacle-of-course]

Love Lies Bleeding was objectively not a very good movie but I approve of toxic yuri big strong lesbian sexploitation films on principle, so