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the borgias (2011-2013) cr. neil jordan / antigone, sophocles

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Klaus and Rebekah if the writers weren't cowards btw

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Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene // The Borgias, S3E3

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the final shot of the borgias being lucrezia pressing her face into cesare’s shoulder and being fully covered by him, almost devoured, as he claims her for himself thus symbolizing her giving herself over to him completely… ohh this type of cinematic excellence will never be replicated on television again i fear

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"I have many fears, most of them about Lucrezia." — Cesare Borgia (The Borgias, 2011-2013) + hints of insecurity

that she adores someone that much / if she will reject his dark nature and act of love and violence as Ursula did / if he truly is not part of her desires / that she easily forgets him

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The Asset.

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Experimental thing bleh

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scarlet johannson did not spend an entire decade fighting tooth and nail to make natasha into an actual character instead of the sex object writers wanted her to be while also having to endure the most vile, misogynistic questions during press tours for people to now disrespect her legacy because yelena is 'better'. the only reason why that is, is because of everything scarlet went through. natasha singlehandedly paved the way for every other female superhero in the mcu and don't you forget that

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So what do you think? Should i fight this, or run with it?

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towards the end of palm springs (2020), i realized this movie is a skewed retelling of adam and eve, or at least it gave me echoes of the biblical story because nyles at the end chooses to leave the comfortable loop and face pain and destruction and uncertainty in the real world with sarah who has found a way to transgress the loop, and so sarah is the eve who has eaten/absorbed knowledge (quantum physics) and she shares it with nyles/adam, but he has to make the active choice to leave paradise behind, in order for it to be meaningful, and this reminds me of john milton’s interpretation of adam’s choice in paradise lost, where adam basically says that he’d rather go with eve and face all the miseries of life outside the garden than stay in paradise and be “happy” on his own, and that’s why he eats the fruit which he knows will damn him, and it just made me think how maybe the whole point of the forbidden tree wasn’t just to learn about mortality and exercise our free will but to learn about love? god must’ve realized that adam and eve are just two people stuck in this eternal garden without proof of actual, substantial feelings for each other, i mean who else are they going to get attached to? sarah brings this up at one point in the movie, that nyles latched onto her because she was the only one there. so god decides he is going to make adam and eve fall and give them a reason to choose each other. only when adam is faced with the choice “eve vs. paradise” does he actually, finally love her, and maybe we had to lose paradise to be able to love each other, and hoo boy, that’s a LOT, isn’t it? anyway in this essay i will not say anything else because god is probably not there and this is all just another way to try to get my ass to sleep at 3 AM byeeee 

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"What if we get sick of each other?" "We're already sick of each other. It's the best." is like. One of the best things ever.

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it definitely makes me believe in something. source. insp.

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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who are you?

severance (2022-) // antigone by sophocles (tr. roy williams)

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My favorite thing about Dylan is that like. He’s just a normal dude. Mark is grieving and drinking to cope innie Mark has to deal with that, Helena is an Eagan and carrying all the baggage and horror that comes along with that and seemingly not eating properly after swimming laps which is affecting Helly, Irving is a spy who sent his innie down there to spy on Lumon and he’s not sleeping. Dylan is legit just a normal dude who severed because he kept getting fired from other jobs.

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severance 2.04 // 2.10

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I care who you are with me.