#symbolism in cinema

[turiyatitta]

Annihilation and Kundalini Awakening

Annihilation is courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media  A Journey Through TransformationIn 2018, Alex Garland’s Annihilation plunged viewers into a surreal and disturbing world, where the familiar dissolves into the unknown, and transformation is inevitable. Watching this movie back then, and rewatching it last night on Netflix, I found myself deeply moved by its haunting imagery and…

[goryhorroor]

horror symbols: crucifixes

In horror movies, crosses are often used as protective charms or magical weapons against supernatural enemies, but in horror movies critiquing catholicism, it could relate to a character a tramua of theirs and what is being used to scare them.

[timotheecontent]

DUNE: PART 2 (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

[alenseress]

The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself and I wonder if one will get a happy ending

#rogerray #mishanks #zolu

[catwouthats]

So you see *starts crying because I don’t have the mental capacity to explain why I love these shots*

[navysealt4t]

okayy sorry not sorry one more post about this movie. so many reviews and ppl are claiming that this movie isn’t necessarily queer at its core which is. so wrong??? like from a plot view point. [SPOILERS AHEAD MASSIVE SPOILERS!]

when maddy tells owen she likes girls and asks him if he does too, he says (to paraphrase) “i don’t know, i like tv shows. when i think about that stuff, it feels like someone’s ripped me open and tore out all my organs.” after he watches the finale of the pink opaque, he’s vomiting the blue luna juice and sobbing about how this isn’t real, which i relate to like feeling trapped in this unaccepting environment . he does this right after realizing he is isabel, but he still hides it and shoved it down and represses it. then there’s obviously the end, where he cuts himself open in the bathroom and sees the static inside of himself for what it is. it calls back to the line “it feels like someone’s ripped me open and tore out my organs.” which was a REPONSE to being asked about specifically sexuality and more broadly, queerness. there aren’t organs there. there’s the static. he was right and it’s a relief and it’s terrifying and it’s full of guilt and shame and regret and fear. it’s the experience of seeing yourself after years of hiding and repression and it’s directly a queer experience. like hello

[thequeensjester]

Rings of Power ➤ Season 2 Cinematography: Frame Within a Frame

A frame within a frame uses hard lines or shapes to draw more interest to the subject and add visual depth to the scene.

In ROP, a frame within frame has been used to tell the audience that something momentous is about to happen; either to the character it's framing or the character enacts it, pushing the story forward. credit: cap-that.com

[usertoxicyaoi]

"That's why I really don't want to see you moving around by yourself, carrying your luggage, from place to place."

THE ON1Y ONE (2024). EPISODE SIX -> EPISODE EIGHT.

[murakamijeva-muza]

[partywithponies]

Say what you will about the Steven Universe finale, but few single lines of dialogue in any show finale ever have the same sheer emotional catharsis of "she's GONE!"

Especially as the ultimate payoff of five solid seasons of everyone, even his own family, making the absence of this kid's mother his problem, and either treating him as just an extension of her, or making him feel bad for not being her.

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖)

𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐫

(OC)

[yukipri]

HOLY FUCK. What a movie. Just what a movie. Holy fuck

(Or, it was incredible. Absolutely blew my socks off. Please go and see it. You do not need to have watched anything else in the franchise, it's completely standalone (though it very much retains much of the symbolism of the original and other films). Especially go see it if you like kaiju films. But it was such a good film about humanity and hope. Just incredible. Go and see it.)

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 '𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐚𝐝' 𝐢𝐧 '𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞' (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒) 𝐝𝐢𝐫. 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢 ❀

[paint-it-dead]

are you mentally stable or are you reading through berserk only to realise that the hand that guts cut off at the eclipse is the same hand that he put on griffith's shoulder after the assassination of the queen and also the hand that he put on griffith's shoulder, again, that was the catalyst for the beggining of the eclipse?

[meow-retrogasm]

Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) photographed by Norman Parkinson (1967)

[xinyuehui]

⸺ That damn broken kite, just floats about in the air, who knows when it'll land?

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)