#I mean look I am not into torturing people with snail spoons IRL
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@redheadgleek it's got Ewan McGregor
#moulin rouge#moulin rouge!#ofmd#fanvid not mine#I love the use of the interludes for snippets of dialogue#violence as the problem not sex#but also the positioning of violence as the problem is just as fraught as the positioning of sex as the problem in the song#both the song and the video are told from the spectators point of view and not the agent's#the singer views Roxanne's engagement and sex work as inherently demeaning but she probably doesn't#steed views Ed's engagement in violence as inherently demeaning even when it is an appropriate response#don't demean yourself Ed#when Ed orders the torture and death of the French Captain who guess what Stede is already condemned to die under the rules of piracy#and the torture threat is probably not carried out given how difficult and time-consuming it would have been#but still it is important for Ed to make in asserting his power and humanity to somebody who refuses to see him as human#I mean look I am not into torturing people with snail spoons IRL#but this is a narrative and the problem with Ed's violence is not that it demeans him#but that it is psychologically costly#I mean that's the whole reason he farms out his violence to other people#because it costs him too much#and yet narratively it is necessary and justified in a lot of cases#even if in real life we don't condone murder#fiction is a place to explore ideas and meaning#ofmd meta#Youtube
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