you’re a bard meeting the boy king for the first time. you’ve traveled a great distance, and legends flow through you when you sing for him. a great danger has befallen the kingdom and a greater destiny awaits the king, but in this moment, magic, peace and hope exist.
you’re a young, ingenue lounge singer with a tender soul, still stuck on your first love. your music is sadder and softer than what your audience is used to, but that’s alright because nobody pays you too much mind through the smokey haze.
even though you have a sleek career and a stainless, sterile apartment in new york city, an unshakeable sadness fills you to the core. no matter how hard you try, you can never leave the pain of the past behind. rain strikes the pavement, and you are unbearably lonely. (a little life)
you stumble into empty diners, fall asleep in cornfields, and drag your feet on empty dirt roads when all you want to do is return home. you haven’t laid eyes on your wife or son in years, and rural americana is starting to blend into folktales and myth. (the odyssey)
you’re in love with your best friend, the other half of your soul, but there’s a war raging around you. sand and prophecies nip at your heels. fate and glory are inescapable, and he is swift and beautiful and bright. (the song of achilles)
you’re in a leather jacket and a red bandana, sipping a mexican coke on the back of your sapphic girlfriend’s motocycle as you ride off into the arizona sunset.
summer is coming to an end in el paso, texas. it’s the year 1987, and you’re falling in love with your best friend, but you don’t know it yet. there is a thunderstorm inside you. (aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe)
there’s a knife in your hand, and it’s dripping with blood. revenge is hereditary. there are ghosts in the bayou, and a curse on your house that never sleeps. (the oresteia)
young gods are in our midst, and there is a modern divinity at work. you are remembered, even in another time. (every indie/alt/pop song with a title from greek mythology)
it’s the 1920s, and you’ve just emerged victorious from a shoot-out with your rival gang. you decide to visit your favorite speakeasy, and before you know it, dawn arrives. your pinstripe suit is trashed, but there is solitude to be found in dark alleyways.
taika waititi being the first indigenous person to win an academy award. parasite being the first academy award for south korea and the first best picture that’s not in the english language. history was literally made tonight
‘what made you decide to have the film in korean’ she asks the korean director who lives in korea and speaks korean and hired a korean cast to play korean characters to make social criticism about class in korea
TOP 10 LGBT+ FILMS OF THE DECADE:
Pariah (2011) dir. Dee Rees
Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes
BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017) dir. Robin Campillo
Disobedience (2017) dir. Sebastián Lelio
A Fantastic Woman (2017) dir. Sebastián Lelio
The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-Wook
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma
Tangerine (2015) dir. Sean Baker
The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
i was watching The Irishman with my family last night, and let me tell you, i was honestly very confused—slightly behind, yet the name “Jimmy Hoffa” really rang a bell, yet i couldn’t put a name to it so i simply ignored it. wasn’t until today that my dad was talking about his big of a deal Hoffa was when he was a kid and how he just suddenly disappeared and it was a big ordeal. suddenly, everything clicked into place, except for where i recognized the name. suddenly, i realized...
it was a fucking buzzfeed unsolved episode wasn’t it?