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PARMINDER NAGRA as Jess Bhamra Bend It Like Beckham (2002) | dir. Gurinder Chadha

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sram is becoming easily my top 1 favorite remakes. all scenes are so beautiful and delicate.

i really hope we get season 3 and 4.

also, props to all the artists who manage to put so much emotion on such small scenes. i got teary eyed with nora and eva in the last clip

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✨SRAM Parallels✨

Two very different moments in time and two very different conversations. I just think it’s interesting though how the mention of Roko is used to introduce much needed significant conversations that both have such a deep impact.

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My poor girl 😭😭 fuck Sven!!

“What’s my angel up to?” JUST SHOOT MY WHY DON’T YOU.

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Četvrtak 13:23pm aka hell week is starting to slowly turn into the start of healing.

Oh my goodness, I was so worried about what this scene would entail. The bravery of Noora to go to the doctor and have a blood test. It reminds me of how in the OG Vilde tells Noora that she should have gotten tested, as though Noora should automatically think logically and know to get tested when she's barely even been able to begin to process the trauma. I imagine in this version that last night when Noora was looking online at the drug that her drink was likely spiked with, it would have said that having a blood test would confirm the presence of the drug. I can also understand Noora going by herself, given that for most of her life, she has had to be self-sufficient. The use of blue and the spotlight echoed Noora's isolation on Monday. Noora then cries in the bathroom whilst looking at herself in the mirror; it feels as though she has pieces of what happened but does not have the full picture whilst simultaneously having to acknowledge to herself that she was assaulted.

The ending gives me hope though because I think it's the first time in this episode I think someone has actually asked Noora if she is okay, as though for the first time in this episode, she sees what we the audience have seen all week that Noora is struggling. I hope this means Noora realises that she doesn't need to go through this alone and has people who will support her.

Noora taking off the plaster at the end feels as though it's signalling that as much as it hurts, she's ready to tell someone and say aloud for the first time what happened to her. I guess that she will tell Eva first and that they'll either be walking or sitting on a window sill. The ending of Noora saying that she is fine even though she isn't makes me wonder if there is some part of her that knows that she will be okay and will get through this 🩵

I hope anyone who has read this and has experienced sexual assault knows that what happened to them is not their fault and they do not have to go through this alone. Please reach out to someone, be it family, friends, doctors, or a helpline. Even if you’re not sure what happened or feel that it was nothing, you deserve to be supported, so please, if you take anything away from SRAM S2, it’s that you deserve support, so please reach out to someone. 💜

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One thing I love about this scene is that they are outside walking in nature whilst having such an open and intimate conversation. It also had me thinking that the path Noora and Eva looked out on in the Thursday morning clip could be the same path Tina and Noora are walking on, like a full circle moment. Also, the use of contrast with the background but having green as the primary colour visible is possibly showing that Tina is a green flag in Noora’s life. Finally, the warm, bright light coming through the windows indicates that Noora is free as there are no more secrets between the girls, and she does not have to worry about her relationship with Tina. It also feels like a full-circle moment given that in the Thursday morning clip Noora and Eva were sat inside against the window, so having the light shine out in the evening clip feels like a moment of happiness basking in light.

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Honestly I just wanted to crawl through the screen and give Noora a hug. This scene is beautiful done and there is sooooo many things I could discuss. One thing I want to focus on though is the ending of Nora standing alone in the light being fully being honest about how she feels that she is always the bad guy. I think this speaks to multiple areas of her life as she’s the one telling Vito off for being messy, the one having to have the conversation with Tina, the one missing out on Eva’s birthday celebration and the one having to pause her relationship with Roko.

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SRAM Colour Theory ✨Fight Scene✨

Soooo the use of colour in this scene is magnificent.

Example 1: Having Roko smile at Noora and there being this aura of light around his face it felt kind of angelic. Having Nix then creating a shadow when telling him the painful news possibly foreshadowing that aura of good we've seen is temporary. Having the green in the background possibly indicating that Roko is being given the green light to prepare for something terrible.

Example 2: Having the girl come to the bathroom to tell them about the fight and behind her being red light signalling danger. I enjoy the way the scene is lighted in that the girls can stay in the natural light safety of the bathroom or go into the red light corridor of danger.

Example 3: Having Roko being in a natural light meaning that you fully see him it's no longer a aurora of goodness on his face but fully him so you clearly see this side of him there's no hiding away from it. Whereas Noora's under a red light looking horrified possibly showing that she's thinking that's she at risk as red light could indicate red flag behaviour though I think this a passing thought.

There's also the view that Noora’s only so far seenRoko's gentle side so has been wearing rose tinted glasses and was blinded to Roko's other traits but no longer is.

In conclusion the way that colours are used to communicate different meanings depending on the scene eg. red being used to show love when Noora and Roko first kiss then being used to indicate danger during the fight scene or green used to show Eva is supportive in the morning clip then with Nix green light signaling the go ahead that chaos will ensue showing that colours just like people are multifaceted and it all depends on the context your using it in.

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The fight we all knew was coming but still managed to surprise the entire fandom.

Soooooooo I have a lot of thoughts about the fight clip but I decided to do two post because why not.

Below is a messy tangent of thoughts enjoy!

First Noora going straight in to ask Tina why she didn’t answer her call because she’s likely anxious about this chat and starting to sense that Tina is avoiding her.

Eva then commenting on Tina's dress and given what we know about Tina having an eating disorder comments like that can be very harmful. Understandably Eva does not know this and was likely making a joke. It's a interesting juxtaposition though given that Eva is green flag in Noora's life and knows that the stress the situation is causing her so is calling BS on Tina's excuse but from Tina's perspective the comment could cause harm.

Next Tina's heel breaking which I had a couple thoughts about. One being that during the previous group clip Tina was at the top of the stairs possibly communicating her role at the group leader. So having Tina's heel break makes her possibly shorter than the other girls so my initial thought was that levels was being used to indicate that Tina feels on the outer as she just cannot reach the other girls level of acceptance of this relationship so Tina would distance herself from the others. Honestly I think it was a good choice to have the heel break though because I think we're starting to see Tina starting to stop caring as much about what others think so it gave Tina an excuse to get drunk and have funnn as usually as parties she's obsessing over Roko and worrying about image.

Focusing on the other girls it's interesting that Vanessa decides to go up into that space in the first place as to me it communicates that she wants to be apart of the party but at a distance likes she observing everyone but wants her own space which reminds me of OG Sana. Plus the use of levels in that moment having Vanessa there potentially showing that she has more power than people realise as she could be the first to notice a potential issue before it happens. It reminds me of OG Skam season 4 trailer in that Sana has more power than people realise which she uses to keep her friends safeee. Also having Tina being Vanessa wing women then having Vanessa join the girls and touch Tina's feet was such a sweet moment. Then having Vanessa join the girls and be apart the group showing that she feels comfortable to enjoy the moment. Vanessa touching Tina's feet and smile at her was so sweet. Adore the blossoming relationship between Tina and Vanessa. Side note I can’t help but wonder if there giving us little hints about Vanessa sexuality but I guess all will be relieved in good time.

Having Noora being worried about Tina's physical safety was a fascinating choice given that Noora could potentially cause Tina harm emotionally by telling her about Roko.

Briefly just want to say I loved the dancing scene it was so sweet to see the girls having fun and being free before chaos happens. Plus the moment with Nix at the piano was an interesting insight into her character. Also having Eva not be drunk was a welcome change.

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When skam originally aired the characters were older than me now I go on Instagram where I see that Eva from sram was born in 2008?? I feel like an octogenarian

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okay PSA TO EVERYONE LISTENING:

when I got into fanfic, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. I just knew it was fun and I was passionate about it. I didn’t have any friends in fandom, I barely knew how to use ao3 (I watched a useless YouTube video and taught myself everything I needed to know) and basically had to learn how everything worked by myself, but I was ELATED when I posted my first fic and people were reading it. It was mind blowing to me becuase back then, I had never posted anything of my own for people to see. I didn’t have a tumblr, I didn’t post anything on Pinterest, hell Pinterest was the closest thing I had on my phone to any sort of “social media”. So as you can infer, I was very happy when my fic was read by like ten people. It was just such an unnecessarily encouraging space full of nice commenters and people—I could go on a long rant about how GOOD a space ao3 is and how the people there are legitimately some of the best people ever as long as you’re curating your experience well but I digress—and I was Loving It.

a big game changer was when one of my fics kind of blew up. Idk, I guess people were yearning for some time travel (maybe it helped that it was my first fic over 80k) but point is that I got regular commenters commenting on every chapter I posted, and it was So Fucking Awesome to realize that the fic I had spent a year writing, expecting 50 people to read it at most, meant something to these people—meant enough for these people to come back got each of those twelve chapters and leave a nice note at the plot I had spent months dreaming up out of nothing but my own inspiration and enjoyment. It’s fucking crazy, you know? The realization that something you were doing just for your own happiness can make others happy. That a hobby you started just becuase you liked a character could spread until people stayed up till 2 am reading your words and offering their kudos and thanks and opinions and excitement in return.

so.

I am passionate about the relationships within fandom and how fanfiction feeds the fans, which leads to fans feeding the fanfiction in a beautiful cycle of support and thankfulness. Sure, there are always going to be those assholes that tear apart rather than truly critique, or the people that think your opinions render you trash, or who think your favorite character is shit or your writing is useless. There are always going to be those people and there’s nothing we can fucking do abkut it becuase it’s human nature to contain division and antagonists and differences in opinion. But those people—they make the rest of it all the more beautiful for their presence. It makes you realize just how kind a community this is. Guys, I would never have found my love for writing—any kind of writing—without fanfiction and the encouragement of every well-articulated comment citing their favorite sentences in my fics and each comment that just says “OMG AHHHHHHH”. Each one is special and each one I treasure becuase it lets me know that people are happy because of me. And not just in a “man I’m a people pleaser” way but in a “this community is beautiful” way.

I still remember quite fondly times when their were trolls in my comments or people being rude about choices I made in my fics, and other commenters came to my defense—telling them to shut up, that they were wrong or that they could just not read if they weren’t enjoying it. It made me so happy to see that people were kind enough to defend me from the people that came into my comments just to make a racket or hurt my feelings.

the point of this overly long rant, besides the fact that I just wanted to talk about how much I love fandom, is that the glue of this community is the support we give each other and the encouragement which we offer to young writers and people who feel insecure in their skill, wether that skill had been hardened by years of work or a single day of writing. The fuel of fandom is the good vibes we, the fans, are willing to put out there, and it always will be.

so. In ALL of my blogs, my ao3 comments, my dms, wherever the fuck you feel safest doing it—you allow always allowed to run fic ideas, opinions, Headcanons, thoughts, ANYTHING by me. Becuase it makes me fucking elated to know that my encouragement helps turn the fandom wheel, and it makes my day brighter to know that someone might be writing a fic or discovering a new favorite character or spending time doing something they enjoy because I offered my kudos and thanks to them. t’all are always, always allowed to ramble and rant and word-vomit wherever the fuck yku want in my blog, no apologies necessary. In fact, apologize and I’ll berate you for it. I am in fandom TO hear these rambles, and I treasure each one because they mean that someone trusts me to give them an honest, kind and encouraging opinion on something they spent their time doing—whether that be art, writing, Headcanons, anything.

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Oh my gooodnesss that latest SRAM was magnificent. So many thoughts but one observation which is likely due to a lack of sleep that I found interesting was the use of green for Eva. I mean she wears a green top, a green backpack, her eyeshadow seems kind of turquoise like to me plus her nails are blue and green I think. This was really fascinating to me because I think usually green is used to communicate jealousy in a scene. So the use of the different greens in this scene which all complement Eva well to me communicates green flag energy as she is so supportive of Nora and just wants Nora to be happy. Honestly this is most definitely a stretch but are they communicating that Eva is a walking green flag.

Then you have Lovro who has a distinct darker shader of green hair in comparison to greens that Eva wears. Could this potentially demonstrate that Lovro is jealous as he’s in love with Jackov but can’t be with Jackov.

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Hiiiiii

So I recently started watching Scam Croatia, and I've become obsesssssed with the show. Honestly, with every clip, Instagram post, and text messages, I have so many thoughtssssss. So I wanted to ask if anyone wanted to message to discuss clips and things. If not, no worries 💛