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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) dir. Shawn Levy Spider-Man (2002) dir. Sam Raimi

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I was trying to figure out why this scene, which is so short and has no dialogue, stuck with me, so I thought I'd make an attempt.

To me, it's evocative of the kind of raw fragility you feel after a traumatic experience. Everything feels quieter, somehow. Your goal becomes simply to get from one moment to the next. Fresh off the death of Jane, Jesse's priority is just... survival. It's in his bare, shaven skin. His raw eyes. His unreadable expression. His gentle, cautious hands.

Of course, the act of planting a flower is symbolic of starting from the ground up, re-learning to take care of a living thing, of yourself. There's a bittersweetness in that. He's been forced back to the basics of taking care of himself. This is simple; something you might do as a kid in class. This is a task he's being given that he - someone like him - can do. The script notes that "he'd make a pretty good gardener if he put his mind to it."

Jesse's second priority is learning to navigate what he actually values in this new state of survival, now that he's not actively killing himself. He makes the decision to accept this kind of trivial task into his life, to quietly make a good job of it. In that, I see Jesse's resolve to accept who he is: the "bad guy" who can't change, and is resigned to just keep trucking along. Plant the flower. Do things for the sake of doing them, even though you don't see the point. Jesse in S1 might find this demeaning, or blow it off, fight it as a way to reject other people's expectations of him and assert the image of himself that he wants to project. S3 Jesse has no option left but to accept this into his life. To make of it what he can.

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newt - the maze runner 2014

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top ten funniest moment in teen wolf is in season one when scott isn’t supposed to be at the dance and coach sees him and scott frantically runs up to danny and gets him to dance with him and then coach is just panicked backtracking to not be homophobic

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I'm over here reblogging every other post about the artful dodger right as I finished it as if it will get renewed solely with the power of the intense chemistry the jack×belle gifs radiate

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Breaking Bad 3x01: No Más

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sciles in 3x06: motel california

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TEEN WOLF (2014) Anchors - 3x13 dir. Russell Mulcahy.

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red wine supernova

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rewatching teen wolf 1.01: wolf moon

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peekaboo!

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ISAAC LAHEY Teen Wolf | 2.01

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stiles in 2x04: abomination