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2025 the year of jack oconnell playing a weird little freak

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you are a boy growing in a convalescent world. your institutions are teaching you that the only way to survive is to kill and to be violent. your institutions are lying to you. your institutions just hit you on the face. your institutions are telling you to let your loved ones die and not look for answers but the one thing you are allowed to do is to go out there and kill. i just watched 28 years later and the movies are so back baby.

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I think its really funny how people got mad at the story of 28 years later and are calling it disappointing, probably because it didn't have much to do with war and killing zombies and was overall a much more contained story about a kid and his dying mother, which is funny considering the first movie in the series was a fairly contained story about a group of survivors trying to find peace in the apocalypse, 28 days is known for its eerie, quiet shots of Jim walking around a completely empty London and the apocalypse "ends" from natural causes by the end of the film, it's only in 28 weeks where themes of war really come in and there's a reason why it's the least popular of the series, it's filled with explosions and huge action set pieces yet the most memorable part of the story is the family drama in the beginning of the movie

It's also funny to me because 28 years itself seems to be saying "why are we trivializing death and celebrating war? why are we teaching young boys to behave violently?" the heavily stylized, flashy zombie killing scenes go away once Spike steps out on his own, the movie emphasizes the teachings of Spike's dad and the town as being wrong so he chooses to go against them, it's only once he goes off on his own that he learns the reality of death, I think the themes of war and violence are gonna make a return in the next two movies as the underlying theme of this trilogy as a whole but for this movie it was important for Spike to learn this lesson about death in a way that wasn't flashy or loud

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with all the rave & confusion & disappointment i've seen about 28 years later i have yet to see some well-deserved flowers for the young fathers, which is a damn shame!!!! i hope im not the first to do it because the story is by all intents & purposes married to its music, & the score makes up so much of the series. godspeed you, with their bleak sonic atmosphere, sketched the first film a world laid waste. young fathers aptly paints this one as a newborn screaming their way into it. godspeed you's music was the long drive home after a funeral. young fathers' was a baptism. if u haven't yet, i urge you to look into the band's history & discography. with what 28 years later is trying to say, i'm deeply stoked that they chose the young fathers to be the artists to sing it.

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how it feels to walk out of the theater being the only one who understood 28 years later

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Spike's disillusionment with his father and concordantly his island community is a metaphor for institutional British masculinity failing the current generation by trying to maintain narratives of greatness and dominance rather than maintenance and growth. Spike's running into the Jimmies at the end of the movie will signal this disillusionment as one of the vital ingredients of violent radicalization in young men. That being said, 28 Years Later is also a somewhat Arthurian/Medievalist tale, not only because of the prominence of yew bows and the very deliberate callbacks to technicolor medieval romantic films, but the fact that Spike leaves his island community in a rejection of the moral failings of his father, witnesses a miracle in the birth of an uninfected baby from an infected mother, and meets a mystic/Merlin figure in Dr. Kelson but is unable to actually return home once his quest has started. I imagine "The Bone Temple" will be another step in this story as Spike's coming of age, where he will have to eventually resist and reject the indoctrination of the Jimmies and forge his own identity.

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Spike goes to the mainland twice, but he only “becomes a man” once. With his father he sees killing and death as heavily bravado based, the enemy so dehumanized it’s an adrenaline inducing boy’s day. He misses most of his arrow shots and hides in an attic.

With his mother he learns there is love and memory in death, accepts that they all must die, and sees that sometimes you must kill to survive. They sleep in an open air church and his arrows strike hard and true.

With his father he leaves and returns as the child in need of protection and with his mother he returns protecting a baby and taking on the role of adult.

All of this to say is the movie shows us the stark difference between the toxic masculinity of his culture telling him that manhood is killing for fun, and the masculinity he learns from the doctor about honoring death and accepting that the only thing we have power over is love and memory.

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shanks/makino playlist

for @missmungoe​

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wasted so much of my time trying to figure out who i wanna be and what i have to identify as just for a one piece episode to drop and make me realize that all i want in life is to be as silly and unsettling as gear 5 luffy

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Luffy's selfishness

One Piece: Wano Country Arc, Eiichiro Oda // The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

(Couldn't stop thinking about the wonderful analysis by @ace-no-isha & the equally wonderful comic of that same analysis by @fluffyartbl0g.)

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iñaki godoy studied luffyology at the esteemed monkey d'university. he graduated top of his class. latin honors. he's on his way to get a phd. oops wait he's already got it. my god. the talent on this young man. he's got that natural troublemaker face. the class clown at the back of the class kind of energy. a kid who's hiding something in his hand. u take one glance at this guy and u know he's not up to no good. but would u follow him anyway? are u kidding me. look at him. of course u would.

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everyone is acting the shit out of their roles. wth.

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(falls to knees) just finished sanji's backstory (coughs out blood) it was alrigjt 👍🏾

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its just me and jacob romero gibson's usopp against the world.....

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oh dear lord ok. girl with the sawfish tattoo. here we go. fuck. ok.

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i cant believe its one piece of all anime that gets to break the live action adaptation curse. this is so funny. the most unadaptationable anime is the one that. fucking . makes it. my face hurts from laughing and smiling too much. everyone did their damn thing. whatever criticism we lob at this thing doesn't fucking matter anymore. people dont get it. but i do. the goal of a live action adaptation, first and foremost, is to make me, specifically, fall in love with the story and characters all over again. and i did.

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congratulations to the one piece live action team for everything, but especially for perfectly, spectacularly, and unabashedly portraying how head over heels in love the straw hat crew is with monkey d luffy