#unique films

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[twilight-zoned-out]

The Ken dance is so magnificent because it’s reminiscent of the Golden Age of Musicals when there would just be artful dance sequences for no reason other than the director wanted to have one.

[almondcroissantsandink]

some studies of glen powell because I wanted to further understand how his facial features work! :)

[coldasyou]

insane that we have to sit through take after take about how gen z is uniquely stupid, lazy, illiterate, vapid ect and pretend this is not the exact same shit people said about millennials like a decade ago and will be the exact same shit people will say about the next generation. like cool

[jennilah]

Gloves

[ink-the-artist]

Dude some of those popular so-bad-its-good movies are unironically outsider art and I don’t think they get enough appreciation for that

[threefuckencrowsinaleatherjacket]

I’m a sucker for little details and Dead Boy Detectives does that SO WELL SJSJ

So without further ado here’s a not-so-comprehensive-or-complete list of my fave little details from the show (and if you haven’t seen it yet. GO GO GO)

1. Edwin and Charles’s movements. The way they mimic each other, tilt their heads at the same angle at the same time, the silent conversations, UGHHH

2. Charles finding Edwin in Hell EXACTLY MIRRORING Edwin finding Charles when he was dying (ie the dying one turned away, wrapped in a blanket with no hope and the saviour standing above them looking like a goddamn angel, holding a lantern)

3. I didn’t count but I bet if I did I would see exactly 147 cats (King included. When I do my rewatch I’ll count for sure)

4. The music choices!!! I knew this show would steal my heart when they played Hang On To Yourself (one of my favourite Bowie songs OF ALL TIME) in the first episode, and I was EVEN MORE SURE when they played Disorder (also one of my fave Joy Division songs)

5. The cat king wearing a skirt :)

6. Any nod to the Sandman honestly I loved that show too I was so hyped when Death and Despair popped up

I’ll def update this list on my rewatch but pls pls reblog with ur own favourite details so I can look for them!!!

[cyberpunkaddict]

V:ANESSA\\ 📸 by @kdval ⭐

[avatar-state-kate]

The new A24 horror film Talk to Me uses possession and communicating with spirits as a metaphor for drug use. Perhaps it’s a little anticlimactic to say it point blank but the film isn’t exactly subtle in this regard (the plaster hand, supposedly once belonging to a medium is even used to hold a joint). It is not that this metaphor that is interesting but how the film uses it. Communicating with the dead becomes a party activity- I’m a social medium, not a real psychic.

In the beginning Mia is introduced to the hand at a party. After this first use Mia needs to recreate the party setting to get that second, third, forth hit. She doesn’t have a problem, she’s a social user. Mia has recently experienced a major loss, the death of her mother, and as a result she has been feeling isolated. These parties give the illusion of community, but when the going gets tough these people prove not to be real friends; bailing at the first sign of trouble, flaky and only helping when their own safety is in jeopardy.

While using the hand is described as feeling amazing, and the montages show a fun uproarious time, the scenes showing the possessions in real time are from an outside perspective, seeing the physical body and not the mental escape- it looks scary, the way pictures of heavy drug users are shown to elementary kids to scare them.

Many horror movies are in some regard cautionary tales. At there worst, and most famously, attributing sex and drug use with a ‘deserved’ violent death. Talk to me is a bit more gracious in its messaging but it is a warning. The title and the metaphor are in conversation with each other, Mia is really crying out for someone to talk to about her grief over the death of her mother, but instead she is filling the need by using the hand. Turning to the hand rather then reaching out results in Mia destroying her relationships, and in the films climax Mia loses herself to it, becoming entrapped on the other side, a spirit that the hand connects to unsuspecting partiers. Drug addiction can feel like an escape from grief and pain, like an amazing party - but it can turn in a moment, and when it does you might find yourself unable to escape.

[lacedwithfemtanyl]

the urge to form my own religion, devote myself to it and run away forever

[creekfiend]

whoever is elected president of the United States will immediately become a war criminal upon being sworn in if they are not one already and captain america was already about nationalism and if you didn't notice the MCU being racist about arabs in the very first fucking iron man film WHICH WAS SPONSORED BY THE US MILITARY I simply do not know what to tell you and I'm going to dunk all of you into a big old bucket of ice until you are damp and chilly

[matthewschiavello]

Excited to share that: Flora #40, October 2024. Unique state print, framed. is part of the Off the Kerb Award Show. @a13offthekerb dates: 5-19 Dec 2024 Opening night Friday 6 Dec 6-8pm gallery info: 66B Johnston Street Collingwood 3066 (Australia) Thur - Fri 12pm - 6pm Sat - Sun 12pm - 5pm www.offthekerb.com.au This image started as capture on 35mm film (which had been soaked in red wine and salt). The film was processed, scanned and then printed on BFK Rives 310 gsm paper, with watercolour washes in areas to further manipulate the image.

[cipheramnesia]

A24 is pretty reliable insofar as a production company can be considered reliable as a predictor that a given horror movie will be fairly good.

However the happiness I feel over a new A24 film is nowhere near the delight in my heart when I start up a horror flick and I'm greeted with Screen Australia. That's when I know I better hold onto my fucking tits.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I know we all will have our own opinions about Chabad, but I just hung up the hebrew calendar they sent to my shul that we received on Rosh Hashanah, and there are gorgeous artworks for each month and it tells you what time to light your candles and it's just really nice to know that even in a place with as small a community as mine, we still are sent these things and we're looked after. I get to look at this calendar and know the world is bigger than I think, that I'm not an island.

[laracrafts]