#tone-deaf

[mercuriedad]

Tone-Deaf - 2019  Explanation/Review!

So, I’m going to make a series where I review movies that I watched to learn more about different concepts. This one was just, irritiating more than a slow movie. 

(There can be grammar mistakes, since I am writing this from an old keyboard, very old, mind you, but it still works thanks to me.)

Warnings: Dead humans, Spoilers, suicide, sexual themes, a karen main character, and a onesie wearing killer who hates the younger generation, and older generation, stalking, mentions of gore, drug use.

Explanation:

So, for short, our main character is a young woman that lost his father by suicide, she loves to play piano but she sucks, but people say nice things to her even if it sounds bad. On the other hand, we have our second main character Harvey, he lost his wife by suicide, and his wife played piano as well. Olive (our main character.) decides to broke up with her boyfriend, then her annoying boss fires her. All of these happens very quickly, and she finds herself talking about it to her best friend, Lenore, which she says that she should treat herself and rent a house, stay there, off the phone, off the men, and even without wanting to, Olive listens.

Harvey, stays with his very old house keeper, Agnes. She clearly cares for Harvey, and his son thinks that he has dementia. (Which sounds reasonable considering that he is very old but without medical knowledge, no one can be sure.) He totally hates millennials, and he founds himself lost after everything he had done in his life. He wants things to change, so he decides to kill people, saying that he done everything but never killed anybody. Olive being his target, Agnes becomes his target as well, and the killing spree starts when Olive comes to the house and give alot of money to Harvey. Olive, geniuenly hates it, hates the house, get’s scared by Agnes, doesn’t trust Harvey, house being too big to get lost on, everything is boring to her. She still uses her phone as to get dates again, but all of them are old man that Olive isn’t interested in, expect one person, so she chooses that.

Harvey, in a rage, ties Agnes down after talking about his true feelings a little bit, and Agnes tries to reason with him by talking to him, that doesn’t work on him, of course.  Through out the film, you see both characters struggle. Olive trying to connect to her mother, by talking about piano’s and her father, while Harvey finds himself all alone after killing Agnes, (Stabbing her to be exact.)  having constant nightmares about two gender natural humans, sometimes three, male babies appear, it’s all chaos and misery for him. Both of them shows their struggle by pushing people out, or trying to connect to other things, hating and sarcasm on top of non-stop explanation as to why they feel this way mostly giving not much information about it. After killing Agnes, Harvey decides to kill Olive too, but he fails at it, putting a spider in her contact lenses case, then mostly stalking her.  He saves her by a local serial killer who kidnapped a girl, which was the date that she had choosen before. Thanks to him stalking her in a bar, he learned the guy is probably the killer, giving that he tried to drug her while Olive left for the bathroom. Harvey, of course, observes. After Olive leaves the guy at the bar, phone number exchanged, the guy walks out too. Harvey follows him. Second victim being the local killer, he founds the missing girl in the bathroom, eyes and mouth sewed, hands tied, so he kills her too out of mercy. The movie slowly goes to the end while Olive is heavly injured thanks to Harvey’s traps, he tries to explain to her that millennials suck, how his wife suicided, how she played the piano beautifully, while Olive gives the cold shoulder, still not wanting to die, in Harvey’s dead wife’s dress. He wants her to play the piano, which she does, and she plays so bad that Harvey screams her to stop, hitting the piano until it gets broken by him.  Olive never heard of someone saying that she played the piano bad, expect on a asit trip where her father mentions how she plays the piano horribly. She roasts Harvey, taking her time until her mother comes to save her. Mother comes, shoots Harvey while he’s in is onesies, accidently shoots Olive, and the movie ends with her having fun on a grass where she’s hanging out with her mother. Oh, Harvey, by the way, has a son, that is gay, and you see him several times through out the movie, scaring Olive accidently or her mother. (This character becomes important later on.) Harvey, kills  five people, there are kills that I didn’t mention for the sake of keeping this short. 

Review: 

You can’t connect with Olive at all, being that she’s a very cold character that mostly doesn’t care, either replies with sarcasm or something that probably would flip anyone out. She’s rude, she has short temper, she’s struggling, but you slowly end of the line accept her as she is, maybe the movie itself trying to push you into that idea, but mostly it let’s you choose which side you’re on. The actress (Amanda Crew) played her beautifully, showing how much of a character that can annoy, at the same time make you feel bad.  Her best friend is that one best friend, who thinks that you are always low on sugar and try to coat it with, “Oh you need to drink/travel/do activities that you don’t want to do!” and that’s totally fine. You like the way she roasts time to time, but other than that, empty character with plot filling. Agnes, the house keeper. The movie doesn’t talk much about her, not giving much information as well as who she is, but the movie doesn’t give you any chance to connect to her, getting killed off by Harvey because she pushed his limits by her words. I’m shocked that she was killed off like she didn’t matter at all, aren’t you a house keeper? Shouldn’t you be important at all? What a loss. Olive’s mother is a very questionable character to me. She doesn’t empathy with her daughter at all, lying to her about liking her piano, and not giving a thing about anyones buisness. Didn’t thought that she would be important but she is. (What a suprise.) Untill the end, I didn’t think much of her, but after the ending I thought that Olive finally got the connection she wanted by her mother, a good ending if you can call that... Harvey, is our second main character, played by Robert Patrick. (Don’t look at me I see you there.) Harvey, struggles the same as Olive, but he approaches it diffrently- He doesn’t run away or find another thing to keep him on his feet like Olive did, but he chooses to kill people by his own choice. You don’t connect to him, but to me, I was at lost when I saw the ending, it was too weird, too of for me, but the whole time he was in a onesie, I couldn’t stop myself but chuckle. Sorry movie, I couldn’t take it that seriously when I saw Robert in a onesie going on a killing spree. He struggles because of his dead wife, he struggles because his son is gay, and he hates millennials because they don’t work hard for things like he did in his generation. He explains this alot through out the movie, I even lost some of my liquid while listening to him, I don’t understand generation seperation, sorry not sorry. When Harvey dies, a screen comes to his son who holds a man’s hand, his boyfriend I assumed, and they walk away with sad mourningfull faces. He doesn’t give much as the other characters didn’t, but he was a important character thanks to Harvey’s weird dreams. I couldn’t realise untill I saw that part, that, how Harvey only wanted a son that loved females, atleast the movie indicated that or my programing doesn’t function properly, or how he couldn’t bare a child like himself, after all, he hated millennials, and no one tried to help him other than Agnes. This movie got 4,0 from IMDB, which isn’t shocking to me. You cannot connect with characters, it has brutal kills so that’s a point, the plot is weird, horror parts were done beautifully, make up and clothing department is on the point, and cars. I don’t need to say more, just cars. My number would be the same as IMDB, it doesn’t need more or less. Snack movie to watch, so you can kill your time. Thanks for reading my messy review, I didn’t thought I would be doing a review... But here we are.

[pahalikhabar]

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[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"ummm the global strike was called on such short notice we need more time to plan ahead this just isn't gonna work it feels like slacktivism :///" hmm lets try to figure out why a palestinian journalist in gaza who has been documenting her own genocide for the past hundred fucking days called for a global strike on short notice during a livestream while the hospital she was sheltering in was being attacked and she believed she was going to be killed that night. lets think about it. lets put our thinking caps on. lets sit down in our thinking chair and think think think

[corporateintel]

Weak Thinking

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[chappellrroan]

many so called feminist need to realise that "believe women when they raise their voice against sexual harrasment" also applies to women you don't like

[bringcal]

Kendrick: youre racist

drake: you wanna get slaves freed

Kendrick: youre a pedophile and a dangerous child predator

drake: you got molested lmfao, that shit must rlly still bother you huh

[vampirenicotine]

one thing you never do is call the gay as fuck vampire chronicles “subtext” in the presence of sam reid

[unlimitedbutchworks]

does anyone else find it kind of funny how when tme people look for “clockable” traits for purposes like this that they’ll usually use gender affirming traits for the other tmes while just linking trans women to their (real or imagined) dicks? im not flaming im just saying surely you know that a lot of trans women get dysphoric about this, right? you know not all trans women have dicks and many don’t want them, right

[allpiesforourown]

Okay maybe I judged arcane too harshly...

[rocketbirdie]

Weird thing that bothered me about Rebirth and I want to hear other people's thoughts.

Um... Why did they gentrify Gongaga? I can't be the only one who feels cheated by the chummy suburban development vibe in Rebirth.

OG Gongaga is an isolated village deep in a jungle. It's possible to completely miss the first chance to visit, because it's practically unheard of. All the young folks fled to the big city. A reactor blew up and killed most of the inhabitants, leaving the town in a state of decay. The houses are falling apart, the people are desperate, it's derelict and miserable.

An understated theme in the OG is how life is difficult without modern technology. Avalanche sets out to destroy these reactors without considering the consequences for their own futures, thinking "well it won't be easy but i'm sure it'll be fine." Gongaga is the story's way of showing you just how fine everything is going to be— despite being in a lush rainforest, long since violently cut off from Shinra's influence, these people still suffer immensely.

I wanted to see it in hd so bad honestly. The splintered rotting wood, the furskin rugs, the dirty brick walls. The unspoken yet unignorable trauma. The mournful purple twilight that quietly hangs over the whole village. I wanted to see the survivors' spiteful determination to make things work without mako.

Instead we got a squeaky clean Crisis Core rendition of Gongaga, with its down-to-earth upbeat stardew valley soundtrack and generic hard workin' country folk. The houses are like... twice the size i expected them to be. Neat and tidy, no holes in the roofs, no dishevelled interiors. No sign of struggle. Everybody is content at worst.

The reactor may as well have never exploded. Nobody talks about it. We hear some bullshit about Shinra trying to "make amends" or compensate people for the damages, and that's about it. Apparently everybody's just fine with this, because all of the original version's resentment and grief is gone.

Don't even get me started on the barker stationed at the town entrance. "Come experience nature's bounty!" Man... why are we treating it like a goddamn hippy tourist attraction. OG Gongaga would have had someone knock this kid's teeth out.

Idk I'm just sad. The melancholy is what made Gongaga so memorable despite its bump-in-the-road identity. I wish we could have gotten that instead of one big callback to CC.

[foldingfittedsheets]

So my singing voice is alright. I can harmonize like a motherfucker but on my own I’m just like. Okay.

This one day, years ago, I was at work in retail, it was a slow day without customers. I had a coworker, M, who was extremely temperamental, but a wonderful performer. Her voice was angelic. She’d do a ton of open mics with her guitar, and rooms would fall silent to hear her.

A different coworker, A, asked me what I was getting my partner for the holidays. “Oh,” I said, “I want to get him a shirt with Marceline from Adventure Time with some song lyrics!”

“What’s the song?”

At this moment, I rolled the only nat 20 I’ll ever be granted for singing, and I sang the first two lines. It’s a dumb song by a cartoon vampire. But it sounded. So. Good.

And when I looked up three of my coworkers were staring at me, jaws dropped. One of them was M, who looked absolutely furious. I made an enemy with those two lines, upstaging her at the thing she was supposed to be best at.

Fully convinced the universe used me to punish that girl for some reason. She never forgave me for having that one beautiful moment of singing, and I’ll never be able to replicate it.

[janitorpostman]

people who are like "oh no they ruined Caitlyn she is on the bad side now" am I the only one glad that Caitlyn's character took this turn? She was the face of the enforcers to the viewers for such a long time. She was kind, compassionate and diligent, the perfect "good cop".

But that's not a fair representation of the enforcers now, is it.

Vi and Powder were orphaned by enforcers. Kind? No.

When in order to survive, they snuck into Piltover to steal goods to sell them, it was enforcers's job to catch and punish these kids, no questions about what kinda life drove these children to do that asked. Compassionate? No.

When Vi got kidnapped arrested. She was put in prison for 6+ years, I doubt there was ever a due court process to determine whether this child was really guilty and deserved imprisonment or not. Diligent? No.

[class1akids]

A brief summary of the Todoroki family plot by Sero Hanta.

[ringosmistress]

[amethystsoda]

analysis of the irony of this years’ Met Gala outfit theme “The Garden of Time”—

And how it relates to the short story by J.G. Ballard (including the protestors who mirrored the story)

[cosmicredcadet]

Maybe making jokes about "Invading" countries while we have multiple devastating wars that have massive invasions going on isn't the best look you guys.