#movie mumbles

[umbraldame]

Over the weekend I watched Liliana Cavani's 1981 film La Pelle (The Skin.) It stirred up quite a few mixed emotions that I just had to put to paper (so to speak). Apologies for the rambling stream of conscious type review. I will keep this as vague and spoiler free as possible if anyone wants to experience this movie for themselves. Fair warning this blurb contains mention of sexual violence, murder, and cannibalism.

On the surface it was a World War 2 film about the American Army's fifth battalion coming into Southern Italy on the warpath to Rome and treating the city and its citizens as its playground. At first their arrival is celebrated by the people but the longer they stay the more the Americans take and take. Take their woman as exotic sex trophies, take food and resources out of the mouths of starving war torn civilians, and take their very lives. I'd say the thesis would be that the Italian people were treated like meat for the American GI's to consume. Flesh for fucking, flesh for eating, its all the same.

While definitely in the same vein as a 70's exploitation film with its fair share of racism and unsettling underage sexualization (possibly, I was unable to confirm the actresses age at the time of filming) the absurd and jarring imagery and themes served the tone and messaging of the film. This movie definitely got under my skin (pun intended) and really made me face head on my americanized understanding of our involvement in this "noble war" and our tendency to paint ourselves as the world's heroes. Worth a watch but be prepared for an uncomfortable experience.

[tigirl-and-co]

I wonder what horrors could possibly be found on Spider Island!

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[sexy-monster-fucker]

Sony giving us the Venom 3 trailer at the start of pride month is better than any other company’s attempt to show that they’re “lgbtq+ friendly”

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

sorry but if they really wanted to justify splitting it into two movies those bitches should've kissed during defying gravity

[samgiddings]

scrolling through tumblr after the barbie movie dropped and all of my mutuals have changed their icons to barbie:

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🚗💨🥂✨

Original idea from this tweet

[redeliminator]

there is something so heartbreaking about andre's gaze in the car scene with his dad, the one on the prom night. it's so.... full of everything and completely empty at the same time, if you know what I mean. he never looks at his dad. his eyes are all over the place. i knows he's driving so it's partially justified, but it persists even when he seems to be just waiting at the traffic lights. out of all the days, his dad chose the evening not even 2 days before the massacre to tell his son that he was proud of him, something he apparently had never done before. but the message never got through. it hit an invisible wall between them and it wasn't strong enough to tear it down. it was simply too late.

I can't help but think that to some extent, Andre feels sorry in that scene. not enough to back out, not enough for it to give him any hope, but he knows that this man right next to him will be thrown straight into the deepest pits of hell in just two days. and that man is proud of him.

but most of all, he feels sorry for himself.

maybe it's one of the moments when it gets to him how everything could have been so different, so casual. an ordinary life. but it's not. it could never be him. and he knows this.

but here he is, listening to his dad offering this grand gesture to help him pay off his car. little did he know his son didn't give a fuck about paying off a car. it's all so trivial compared to what was in store for both the father and the son.

[mutantmayhems]

casey jones concept art. here she is in the crowd and on the bleachers at raph's wrestling practice. she might not be casey in tottmnt, but we'll see!

[mysticmumbles]

While rewatching the SAW movies with my friend, I noticed something about Strahm and Hoffman and their traps.

Peter Strahm's are the Cube Trap and The Glass Coffin.

And Mark Hoffman's traps are the Shotgun Chair, The dud Electric Chair, and The Reverse Beartrap.

Anyway. Strahm's traps are glass boxes. Hoffman's traps always have to do something with chairs.

Looking up symbolism of glass and chairs got me some interesting results.

Glass - Transparency. Strength and Vulnerability. Enlightenment. Truth.

Chairs - Power. High Status. Authority. Rememberance. Loss.

And I am just thinking about the two of them in SAW V.

Peter Strahm saw the truth about Mark Hoffman after the Cube trap. He was enlightened, and throughout the entire movie, he uncovers the true identity of Hoffman. Strahm is a strong man physically, mentally? I believe to an extent. Twice in his traps, he showed his vulnerability to Hoffman. (Especially in the end when Strahm frantically tries to escape the room/stop his impending death)

Mark Hoffman is the lead homicide detective in the Jigsaw Killer case. Not only that, in the movie he saved a little girl, and he got promoted to detective lieutenant. Of course he has power, high status, and authority. Not just as a detective, but as a Jigsaw accomplice as well. This is also the movie we find out about Angelina Acomb, Hoffman's greatest loss. And throughout the movie, we see remembrance of the past, back when Hoffman was just starting out as a Jigsaw accomplice.

I could also be just grabbing straws and rambling like a mad man, butttt yeah, those are my thoughts about the traps and what they kinda symbolize to Strahm and Hoffman.

[your-local-crypt1d]

Kurt Wagner is SO pansexual to me he just leans into the whole "ladies man" thing for the shits, he'd so flirt with the men too if it wasn't the 90s and he already has to deal with anti-mutant bigots on his ass.

Don't worry though! Rogue could smell the boy kisser in him from a mile away. She was raised by lesbians it only makes sense.

[bitronic]

his phone doesnt have a screen

[tigirl-and-co]

I think this movie may have crime in it

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no spotify wrapped will ever surpass the First One Ever when me and the boys were huddled around the computer watching as my top artist faded into visibility and it was hugh Fucking jackman

[sexy-monster-fucker]

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

I saw Wicked around noon so I wasn't expecting a lot of kids to be there, but 1) a lot of parents clearly pulled their theater kids out of school for a Fun Day, which I love, and 2) there were these two little girls sitting next to me that pulled the seat recliners out as far as it would go, and then they laid on their stomachs kicking their feet in the air the whole movie, and it was the cutest thing I've ever seen