#Frank Berry

[chasingshadowsblog]

Review: Aisha - A Place of Greater Safety

Title: Aisha Directed by: Frank Berry Written by: Frank Berry Starring: Letitia Wright, Josh O'Connor Year: 2022

To say that Aisha is a quiet film might lead some people to understate its power. It is in silences, supressed anger and self-control that both Aisha the film and Aisha the woman exude the strength and fire of their character.

Aisha is a film about a Nigerian woman living under direct provision in Ireland, a state of living that offers little in the way of personal autonomy or civil rights. Under these conditions Aisha is constantly forced to jump through bureaucratic hoops in order to be recognised as someone who legitimately needs the state's protection and, on one occasion, to simply get her post in the morning. Aisha, along with the other asylum seekers, is treated at times like a prisoner with allotted visiting hours and at other times like a petulant child whose rights around the house are revoked for bad behaviour. Obstacles appear in less blatant ways as well, as Aisha must talk to a reviewer with a translator in the room, perhaps not understanding or being understood as clearly as she needs to be, and is later reluctant to recount her trauma for a board of reviewers, making her seem reticent and unsure of herself and surely affecting the outcome of her application. Through it all, Letitia Wright gives a commanding and intensely restrained performance, always allowing the viewer to see the rage, frustration and sadness simmering underneath her veneer of self-control.

Matching Aisha's silence with his own quiet earnestness is Conor, a new security guard at Aisha's accommodation centre and an unlikely new friend. Talks with Conor on the bus into town or silences kept with him in the canteen at night over dinner offer Aisha some much-needed respite from her reality. Reality, however, is never too far from her mind and stops her fully embracing the relationship they would like with each other. As Aisha is flung from one obstacle to the next, the film is grounded in this relationship, as Conor becomes the only person Aisha can express her exhaustion to, if not her life's story. O'Connor gives a beautifully quiet and tender performance in the role, but, Conor himself is wanting in the depth Aisha has. Outside of some snippets of his past, there is little we know about Conor and while their interest in each other is sweet and understandable, his willingness to be with Aisha at the drop of a hat is almost too good to be true, especially when her living circumstances grow less and less accessible. This is a minor quibble in an all-around powerful film and, at the end of the day, the story is about Aisha and its final scene, short and ambiguous, let's us clearly know that no matter what happens she won't stop moving forwards at a powerful pace.

Other bits:

Letitia Wright and Josh O'Connor are really fantastic in this film, their performances are both so quiet but stick with you days and weeks after the film is over

I don't know if the scene in which Aisha is doing the women's make-up is unscripted but, either way, it was beautiful and brilliantly executed by all of the women

with everything going on in Aisha's life it felt strange to root for her romance with Conor, but then it becomes just one more basic right that is being denied Aisha by her circumstances - the ability to fall in love or even just go out with someone isn't something she can have in her life right now

I love the scene where Aisha teaches Conor some phrases while they're waiting for the bus, it's so charming and lovely

Shout out to director of photography Tom Comerford and costume designer Kathy Strachan, between both the film had a very neat, simple and streamlined look that I found very pleasing to watch

anyway, go watch Aisha it's beautiful

[oldshowbiz]

Frank Berry is an obscure stand-up comic from Creston, British Columbia. 

He played dives in Vancouver during the 1950s and moved to England in 1958. He found work on the BBC, appearing on Sunday Night at the Palladium, and hosted live shows around the UK.

In November 1963 he appeared at the ABC Theater in Plymouth, Devon, with a budding new rock group called The Beatles.

Supposedly he’s in Dr. Strangelove - his only film credit.

In the 1970s he returned to North America and worked the cruise ship circuit. 

He occasionally opened for country singer Eddy Arnold.

Today he lives a quiet life, retired in Santa Monica.

[saruhoh]

only thoughts after episode 3 of hbo’s tlou

[bisexualnonsense]

My partner made a comment about how this episode fed into “bury your gays” and like, while his heart was in the right place with the critique, I felt so strongly the opposite way

Like on its face, yes, two gay men died…. But like, in a show about a zombie apocalypse where we’re tracking at least 1 Major Character Death per episode, Bill & Frank are triumphant compared to every other character. They got to live to be old and gray together after a life of relatively peaceful flourishing. They chose their deaths on their own terms, a luxury most people don’t get in this world. They got to die together, in each others arms, neither left to live and suffer alone. They got to go with dignity, autonomy, and love, in peace, together. They got to choose. They made their end meaningful. They were happy and satisfied and fulfilled. Everything that gay characters are so often not afforded in life, much less in death.

Not only that, but narratively speaking, their deaths were used in exact opposition to “bury your gays.” The trope was created to reinforce that being gay is a sin, that gays must die as punishment for their evil ways. It’s intended to be a narrative consequence, the moral of the story, a warning to its audience.

But the deaths of Bill and Frank were used as closure to a story arc about living a happy, fulfilled life with your partner. Even further than that, their arc was used to demonstrate that there is meaning in life because we choose to create meaning, that purpose is found in each other, in loving someone, even at the end of the world. They are held up as an example of what to strive for, of a reason to keep living, of something to pursue. It is completely antithetical to bury your gays and is in fact a brilliant subversion of it in that it grounds the purpose of the narrative itself.

Tl;dr: TLOU really said love wins.

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey in good company at the 2024 Disney Upfronts!

[alvaroz-starrs]

Happy disability pride!

I uh- I'll put my headcannons in a reblog later, I have a few things I need to do today first 😭

Too many tags 😦

[rainestormroom]

....

UNDEAD YOAI 🤯

FISH YOAI

TANK YOAI

THROWER YOAI

....Something...YOAI

I DONT CARE, I NEED YOAI

(I'm totally not crazy...heh...)

[nerdykeppie]

Don't bury your gays: berry your gays. The perfect accessory for enjoying strawberries with the love of your life in the post-apocalypse.

Sometimes I design things because I really, really want to own them. This is one of those things. This listing is a pre-order listing for the "berry your gays" pin -- these pins will ship separately from any other items in your order, no later than April 2023. (The faster we get enough orders to buy the pins, the faster you get yours!)

Pins are discounted during the pre-order phase, too, so snag 'em while they're cheap. <3

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

ALL OF THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME GUY.

ALL OF THEM.

EVEN PEPPERMINT FIZZ.

[citizenscreen]

Frank Gorshin, Carol Burnett, and Ken Berry in “Carol and Company” (TV 1966)

[2-b-art-blog]

Even more whiteboard drawings, but they’re just all my AU’s

[hangonsnoopy19]

Guyssss, I was rewatching Ep 3 and, while of course I was in raptures about all the paintings of Bill that Frank has around the house at the end, I also realized that this painting…

…is a portrait of Frank, not Bill.

I’m pretty sure that painting is a version of this picture of Murray Bartlett:

… which means that during Frank’s time with Bill he not only painted significant portraits of Bill. He also painted himself.

I want to think that art was a great place for self-affirmation for Frank. Obviously he shows love through paying attention and creating beautiful things, but this painting is also an acknowledgment that he is himself beautiful and worth taking the time to paint.

He painted himself in a full body self-portrait, as a confident, self-assured, and sexual being, as a younger man without the ‘apocalypse beard’ and with shorter hair, as beautiful and worthy of artistic representation.

He maybe painted this when he was contemplating getting older with Bill… maybe after he started getting sick.

And the painting itself is also finished, complete. It’s an achievement by an artist who is leading a full life, who has a sense of self, who had the time and space to reflect upon where he has been and how he got to the present moment.

I love, love, love that there are so many pictures of Bill by the end of the Bill and Frank story. It’s a testament to their shared life and love.

And I also love, love, love this display of self-love and self-realization by Frank, who took the space and time and support he needed to get to know himself.

PS - I hope Murray Bartlett managed to steal this from the shoot and now has a massive portrait based on one of his old headshots 😁

[actual-changeling]

side effects may include feeling loved, a fresh supply of strawberries, and mushroom people in your front yard

[mother-of-houseplants-2]

i don’t wish i was catholic but i wish i knew more about catholicism/christianity for the sole purpose of being slightly more insane about lapsed-catholic gallaghers

[imsosocold]

Going through Ace Attorney beta designs like I do paper stamps

What is going on?!! Juan looks more animal than human, especially in the right one! Is he even wearing pants in the right one? Why does he have one rabbit slipper on the left?

This one is cute (*＾წ＾*)

This kinda looks like me, minus the unibrow.

Chad Meme. Also Juan fainting into Gumshoe’s arms would’ve been cute.

Stimming

Very butch but also Karen Esque.

Frank looks so old and wrinkled. The fact that in the main beta Frank is smiling with his eyes shut and a camera in his hands makes me feel even more bad for him.

We could’ve had this for Wendy. The original is immaculate but a plus sized character was lost.💔

These designs are better than Shelly's canon one, rather average looking guys that suit the concept of a master assassin. Obviously excluding whatever is going on with the weird flip thing in the center.

I really like this beta design of Matt. Is the person next to him meant be his manager?

If Capcom had used this design, people really would’ve gone for " Matt has DID and that’s the only reason why he committed those crimes, he's crazzzyyy ." Do not go on a rant about fandom ableism Noelle

I love everything about this.

Also nothing to add to this; glaze at perfection.

Hyper femme vs hyper masc Max and I love both. Instead of a magician he was a Drag Queen.

The upper one should’ve been what Max wears to court and the lower one should’ve been his show wear.

If only Regina had been like this (and an older age).

Too much anime

Fluffy hair Jinxie reminds me of a Hex Maniac. Wonder what her personality was designed to be at this time, Pentagrams on the sleeve cuffs don’t match with her canon personality. Very interested in the writings on her dress collar.

Now the pentagram is even more apparent and the writing is now on her dress straps. It looks like she has bandaids on her forehead rather than runes, especially with the marks on her arms and hands

WHO'S HURTING HER (ง •̀_•́)ง

Here it looks like Jinxie's pigtails made out of ribbons.

I just love Jinixe, she's great

[swteatro]

oi de novo !! trago notícias. fiz o sorteio no chat gpt porque foi o único que pensei, já que não achei site que sorteasse duplas. eu morri de rir com o resultado kkkk espero que gostem

as players de Love e Fahriye disseram que as chars não estarão participando. estou avisando caso queiram combinar plots relacionados a isso.

como não tem personagem para Brad e Rocky, eles ficam como npc. ou podemos arrumar chars pra encaixar. estou vendo com uma amiga que já está no rp se um dos chars dela participaria, aí trago a resposta para vocês. acham que devemos jogar no ooc para ver se alguém se interessa?

enfim, se sentirem desconfortáveis com alguma escolha e quiserem alguma mudança, me avisem. se quiserem que refaça em algum site, posso refazer a lista também.

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