#nightmarealley

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Nightmare Alley (2021) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

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Join us in celebrating the Special day of the talented actor with a heartfelt collection of Happy Birthday Images Wishes Bradley Cooper. Explore a visual journey through his remarkable career and convey.

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[jillofallstuff]

Apakah Film Benar-Benar Mewakili Realitas?

Oleh: Zevi Candida Revoluta,

09 Januari 2023

Saat menonton film, seringkali kita terpana oleh adegan-adegan yang luar biasa dan karakter-karakter yang menarik. Namun, pertanyaan yang sering muncul adalah apakah film sebenarnya mewakili realitas meskipun hanya merupakan cerita yang dibuat-buat? Apakah film merupakan refleksi dari dunia nyata atau hanya sebuah kreasi fiksi yang terpisah dari realitas?

Salah satu argument yang mendukung bahwa film mewakili realitas adalah bahwa film dapat mengeksplorasi tema-tema yang terkait dengan kehidupan sehari-hari. Film dapat menggambarkan perspektif yang berbeda tentang realitas sosial dan politik, terkadang juga filsafat, kehidupan pahit nan keras, atau romansa yang sesekali membuat kita ingat kepada yang tersayang. Film membantu kita memahami perspektif yang berbeda dari orang lain, ada banyak film yang menceritakan sudut pandang orang dengan profesi tertentu, atau keadaan tertentu yang tidak mungkin kita coba, karena setiap diri kita telah menempati keadaan masing-masing. Film juga dapat memberikan wawasan yang lebih dalam tentang isu-isu yang penting secara sosial, politik, sains, budaya, maupun isu gender sekalipun. Beberapa kali aku temukan diriku merasa bertemu dengan "sisi diriku yang lain" atau merasa memiliki relasi dengan tokoh di dalam film karena adanya kemiripan pengalaman empiris dengan nasib atau dengan caraku memandang sesuatu.

Di dalam blog ini mungkin akan ku tulis beberapa pengalaman ku, yang mungkin bisa disebut sebagai "media consumption experience". Istilah ini sebetulnya menggambarkan bagaimana seseorang merespons dan menikmati media yang ditontonnya, termasuk film atau drama. Pengalaman menonton ini dapat dipengaruhi oleh berbagai faktor seperti genre, tema, kualitas produksi, dan selera pribadi seseorang. Supaya aku bisa menyampaikan bahwa ada bagian dari film yang mungkin benar-benar mewakili realitas.

Salah satu contoh film yang dapat ku gunakan untuk membahas apakah film mewakili realitas adalah "Nightmare Alley". Dalam film ini, kita diperkenalkan pada karakter utama bernama Stan Carlisle, seorang ahli sihir yang memanipulasi orang lain dengan ilusi. Ia memulai karirnya sebagai pelarian karena ia menghindar dari dosa "yang tidak dijelaskan" di awal scene. Meskipun film ini merupakan sebuah fiksi, ia mengeksplorasi tema-tema seperti kejahatan, kekayaan, dan kekuasaan yang merupakan bagian dari realitas. "Nightmare Alley" dapat membantu kita memahami perspektif yang berbeda tentang isu-isu tersebut dan memberikan wawasan yang lebih dalam tentang bagaimana kejahatan, kekayaan, dan kekuasaan dapat mempengaruhi kehidupan seseorang.

Selain itu, "Nightmare Alley" juga dapat mempengaruhi bagaimana kita memahami dan berinteraksi dengan dunia di sekitar kita. Film ini dapat membantu kita memahami bagaimana ilusi dapat mempengaruhi cara orang lain berpikir dan bertindak, serta bagaimana kekuasaan dapat dipergunakan untuk memanipulasi orang lain. Film ini juga dapat membantu kita memahami bagaimana kejahatan dapat terjadi dan bagaimana orang-orang yang bertindak kejahatan dapat dikenali dan dihadapi. Namun, di sisi lain, "Nightmare Alley" juga dapat dianggap tidak sepenuhnya mewakili realitas karena ia menggunakan teknik fiksi untuk mengekspresikan ide-ide dan mengeksplorasi tema-tema yang kompleks. Ia juga mungkin tidak sepenuhnya akurat dalam menjelaskan berbagai konflik batin yang digambarkan pada berbagai ekspresi dan respon tokoh-tokoh di dalamnya. Aku begitu teringat bagaimana mimik wajah Stan di detik-detik terakhir menjelang film usai, menerima garis hidupnya yang kemungkinan akan ia jalani hingga ajal menjemputnya. Apakah benar seseorang bisa menerima itu? bahkan seorang Stan Carlisle?

Sehingga, pasti ada juga argument yang menyatakan bahwa film tidak sepenuhnya mewakili realitas. Film seringkali menggunakan teknik seperti fiksi, simbolisme, dan metafora untuk mengekspresikan ide-ide dan mengeksplorasi tema-tema yang kompleks sehingga terkadang tidak merepresentasikan bagaimana sebetulnya manusia merespons rangsangan dunia di sekitarnya. Selain itu, film juga dapat dipengaruhi oleh pandangan dan kepentingan pencipta film, yang dapat mempengaruhi bagaimana realitas dipresentasikan. Kekurangan waktu dan ruang juga membuat film seringkali harus memotong banyak informasi dan menyederhanakan cerita untuk memenuhi batasan waktu dan ruang. Hal ini dapat menyebabkan film tidak sepenuhnya mewakili realitas yang sesungguhnya. Lebih dari semua itu, setiap orang dapat memiliki interpretasi yang berbeda terhadap suatu film, sehingga mungkin ada perbedaan pendapat tentang seberapa jauh film mewakili realitas.

Pada akhirnya, film dapat memberikan representasi dari realitas, namun juga merupakan medium yang dapat mengubah atau mengeksplorasi realitas dengan cara yang tidak sepenuhnya akurat. Namun demikian, film juga dapat menjadi alat yang kuat untuk mengeksplorasi dan mengungkapkan realitas yang sesungguhnya dan membantu kita memahami perspektif yang berbeda. Ketika menonton film, penting untuk mempertimbangkan bagaimana film yang kita tonton mewakili realitas dan bagaimana film mungkin mempengaruhi pandangan kita tentang dunia.

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[libraryofthephantasmagoira]

Saw this recently. Guillermo del Toro’s Film-Noir remake looks beautiful, the sepia-tones of the early pre-war carnival scenes giving way to more severe colours as the protagonist’s greed brings about his downfall. Cate Blanchett steals the film as the psychiatrist Dr Lillith Ritter. I can’t judge this as a remake as I have not seen the original but this impressive film is definitely recommended.

[fogcityboii]

From Zero

I’m back to one (1) follower (Hi @nightmarealley!!) and so I thought I’d take a swing at writing things for public consumption again. 

Being back on Tumblr has brought back a ton of memories - this is where I had my first exposure to critical race theory, read posts that encouraged me to find my first therapist, and reblogged S-tier shitposts from friends throughout high school and college - nearly all of whom I haven’t spoken to in years.

I made this account, IIRC, in 2011. Fast forward 11 years later - I am a grown-ass adult man with a mildly receding hairline, working a fairly balanced job at a big social media company after having spent an entire career’s worth of chaos in politics, a lot less sexually repressed (out as bi to nearly everyone I care about outside of family), living in 1br/1ba shoebox apartment in a high-rise in a fancy city, a lot more physically healthy, and a lot more psychologically stable (thanks to a non-insignificant number of psychiatrists + therapists over the years).

Of all the things I wish I could tell 2011 version of myself, the most important would be:  It gets better.

[louisa-malchance]

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[shirtlessmoviestv]

Bradley Cooper : Nightmare Alley (2021)

[crazyyfilmyfreak]

This is my Head Canon for Nightmare Alley aka Carol-2

* B ROLLS *

i mean look at the way they are looking at each other and Molly is LITERALLY checking her ( Lilith ) out

And Scenes after Stan is gone

And They lived happily forever Afterwards :D

[princesshelicopter]

@uncleagonist told me about a fun little exhibit, Beautiful Monsters, coming up at a local independent theater, the Frida Cinema; so I figured I’d enter. Not sure I’ll be accepted, but in the least, it gave me another art prompt for the week. I’m a fan of Guillermo del Toro so how could I not enter. I had this idea of doing a stretching portrait similar to those in the haunted mansion at Disneyland. So, here’s what I’m entering on Friday. I’m also attempting to make a mock up of the portrait action, just to show how the artwork would be displayed in a stretching frame. The frame would start with just Eliza eating her bag lunch. Then as the portrait stretches, you’d see the creature’s hand reaching for the egg until it’s fully extended and reveals the whole creature. I’ve also had it printed so that if you shine a blacklight on the creature, his stripes glow blue, kind of like in the movie. The artwork will be for sale with profits going to the theater. Whether I make it in or not, I can’t wait to see what others are doing. Regardless, Pick me, pick me, pick me!!! . . . #disney+ #disneyland #hauntedmansion #theshapeofwater #hellboy #creaturefromtheblacklagoon #stretchingportraits #paulfreis #halloween @thefridacinema #guillermodeltoro #beautyandthebeast #forbiddenlove #moviefan #moviefanart #theshapeofwatermovie #theshapeofwaterfanart #crimsonpeak #panslabyrinth #pacificrim #nightmarealley #characterart #characterillustration #amphibianman #horror #horrormovies @realgdt https://www.instagram.com/p/CixPA6IL432/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[junmoriuchi-donut]

【今日の映画】今週見た映画で面白かったのが『ナイトメア・アリー』。ギルモア・デル・トロ監督のサスペンス・スリラー。年代も舞台設定も違うけど、現代日本人の心性を投影したような物語だった。今のぼくらにはこういう主人公になることを目指している側面が少なからず、ある。ぼくたちは知らず知らずのうちにナイトメア・アリーの迷宮に向かって��んでるのかもしれないのだ。こう不況が続くと価値観に変容など訪れようがないから仕方がないのか。それが現代日本人の宿命なのか。期日前投票に行ってくるか。というかこんなおかしな映画の見方をしてるのはぼくだけなのか。いやいや他人事ではないよ。しかしサーチライト作品は刺さる映画が多いなあ。 #NightmareAlley #2021release https://www.instagram.com/p/CfONTC5Jxl8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[movieconsumer]

Nightmare Alley (2021)

I’ve been a big fan of the original “Nightmare Alley” from 1947 since I was a kid. The denouncement of that film is one of the great gut punches in movies. The lead character in that film is a charming heel, but he never seemed outright evil, rather just an opportunist. The Guillermo del Toro version makes Stanton Carlisle a much more malevolent figure and that makes the remakes payoff feel even…

[wigwurq]

WIG REVIEW: NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Another Oscar bait movie, another remake of the damned!!! West Side Story did not need to be remade but actually wurqed - this movie also did not need to be remade and fully lived up to its title. IT’S A NIGHTMARE! It is also very VERY long and I watched all of it so you don’t ever have to. But what about the wigs? Let’s discuss.

Let me begin by saying: I DO NOT LIKE BRADLEY COOPER UNLESS HE IS PLAYING A 70S ASSHOLE. Definitely my enjoyment of this movie was affected by the fact that I truly did not care about him, his character, whoever he might have killed in the first moments of his movie and then set a house ablaze, and certainly not his penis. THIS IS A YEAR FOR DICKS and you almost kind of see his in this early scene in a bath if that is something you remotely care about (I DO NOT). I do, however, support Toni Collette in most things, and especially this wig! It has a nice 30s wave and texture and I wish had not been subjected to Bradley Cooper or any of his body parts.

Anyway, this movie is all carnie horrors from the getgo - tortured souls, tortured babies, tortured people, tortured chickens! It’s a lot and Guillermo del Toro clearly wants to shock and awe but the only thing I was shocked by is that NO ONE TOLD ME DAVID STRATHAIRN WAS IN THIS MOVIE YES!!!! His old lady is Toni Collette and their carnie deal is basically as fake clairvoyants: lying to people about familial dead ghosts. IT’S A LIVING! Bradley learns all he can from them and then MURDERS DAVID STRATHAIRN TO TAKE HIS COOL JOB AND IF I DIDN’T ALREADY HATE YOU BRADLEY COOPER UGHHHHHHHH.

He also charms Rooney Mara who has kind of a dumpy wig at first but does a really cool carnie trick where she electrocutes herself and man - people were really into paying to see other people get hurt in the 30s. What a time!

Rooney and Bradley leave the carnie life behind to cultivate a high class fake clairvoyant act. And after 2 years it works! They are making BANK lying to people about ghosts and wow maybe I picked the wrong profession. Rooney’s wig gets an upgrade! Bradley’s hair is still as slimey as he is but since he’s playing a career conman I guess it makes sense but also: WHO CARES. How he manages to actually psych people into believing him is never really explained and is also basically the plot of the USA show Psych except this movie is not funny at all and also endless.

2 hours (or maybe 2 days?) into this movie, Cate Blanchett shows up as a vamp/psychologist who thinks Bradley is a liar and duh she’s right but then they team up to defraud a bunch of rich assholes? Anyway, this wig isn’t bad and I definitely wanted to live in every interior she inhabited. Still, her motivations are so murky and everything is so boring at this point that like truly, no thanks.

MARY FUCKING STEENBERGEN shows up as a bereaved mother and again - this wig is very servable but deserved to be in a better movie? This is around when Bradley’s character gets really greedy about lying to rich people about ghosts and it ends in a murder/suicide because sure?

AND THEN! Rooney Mara and her slightly longer but still very boring wig try to escape the clutches of Bradley’s nonsense (and blatant cheating on her with Cate Blanchett in a weird Carol reunion no one wanted) but somehow agrees to one more con in which she has to appear as the dead lover of rich asshole Richard Jenkins.

This is where shit really just turns into a Guillermo del Toro nightmare nonsense fest and all logic - wig and otherwise- go out the window. In this scene in which Rooney appears as this fake ghost, she has to both cover herself in fake blood AND wear a wig for reasons unknown. WHY!!! She wears a wig in a turn of the century updo and then quickly removes it to run away from Richard Jenkins but like - WHY DID YOU NEED A WIG? Your hair was the same color and length of this ghost lady - just use bobby pins???? The wigs up until this point were fine but this plot point turned the tides. I love a wig on wig reveal but THIS ONE IS UNNECESSARY AND STUPID! Then again, this whole movie is unnecessary and stupid. 

VERDICT: DOESN’T WURQ

[schizophrenicsworld]

Last six movies I saw : The power of the dog (2021), The lost daughter (2021), Licorice pizza (2022), Nightmare alley (2022), Coda (2021), Belfast (2022).

Favorite : “Nightmare alley” ♥

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