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I saw the tv glow is crazy bc it’s a movie that genuinely makes you watch how your life could fall apart. Makes you watch how heavily repression can affect your life and how dangerous and sad it can be. But at the same time it’s like “hey, if you’re still alive there is still time, so keep going.”

I’ve genuinely never watched a movie that has given me so much sadness, but let’s me find a sense of hope, no matter how bittersweet, within that devastation.

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finally started watching i saw the tv glow and i don’t even know how to explain it. no cause like imagine. you’ve been dying all your life. slowly suffocating all your life and no one has noticed not even yourself. because you don’t let yourself think about it because if you do you can feel the dirt on your chest and you’re screaming and no one can hear you and the one person who did the one person who grabbed your hand and called you by your name you pushed away because you were scared but maybe there’s still time and maybe there’s still time and maybe there’s still time and you can’t breathe

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He is a KNIGHT

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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Thomas Lawrence: i want to (remembers suicide goes against catholicism) be the pope?

God: hits the loudest incorrect buzzer of all time

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conclave fever is taking over my body

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what the hell I watched the wgf x peter straughan script breakdown of conclave (2024), took notes, and made graphics of the script + screenshots so you didn't have to. have a visual guide.

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ever-present

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liking conclave a normal amount <3

(back/front of the conclave zine!)

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kind of crazy that Cardinal Lawrence started the movie having a crisis of faith and depressed about not feeling God’s presence but the moment he decided to try to get over it and try to be Pope anyway God showed up and blasted the roof off the place directly over his head specifically to tell him to sit back down. Dad who hasn’t been home in months and then shows up at your little league game to boo

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Conclave (2024)

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CONCLAVE (2024) + LETTERBOXD REVIEWS

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grant us a Pope who doubts 🕊

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ms. sue b. stance from the hit body horror film #thesubstance

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I hate posts like what if there is someone out there who takes the substance and respects the balance and just has a good fucking time. No there isn’t because you take the substance when u hate yourself and you’re sick of yourself and you’re lonely because you hate yourself so u let literally nobody into your life. You destroy yourself because you HATE yourself. You would not take the substance if you were going to respect the balance. You wanted a better version of yourself and its addicting.

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The first act of The Fly (1986) compared to the rest of the film....

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The Fly (1986) dir. David Cronenberg