#It's so heartbreaking to see how you can literally see Marc being stuck in his freeze reaction

[nowritingonthewall]

I’m just begging you: Don’t make us go there again.

[artzychic27]

Ride the Cyclone AU?

Our host for the evening is Master Fu, a mechanical fortune teller who reveals that he will soon die due to rats chewing through his cables

Master Fu used to be able to predict the future, specifically the exact moment of a person’s death, but the carnival set him to “Family Fun Mode,” meaning he could only repeat fairground advertisements. For example: Ride the Cyclone

He begins to tell the tale of two classes from the same school going to the carnival as part of a field trip. On a dare, one class has to ride the Cyclone, and when Mendeleieve’s class loses, they ride it… To their deaths

Those students are Aurore, a stressed out perfectionist; Ismael, an angry boy from Pakistan; Reshma, a kind wealthy girl who seems to have everything going for her; Denise, a muscular student with a ton of responsibilities; Simon, a tech-loving redhead; Marc, a shy writer; Mireille, a seemingly cheerful girl; Cosette, constantly neglected at home by their parents; Jean, a bubbly thespian; and Lacey, a thrill seeker

The ten of them arrive in limbo where they are greeted by Master Fu who tells them of their demise and then announces they are in a literal game of life and death

They must compete for the chance to return to the living

Moments later, they are introduce to the eleventh victim, a mystery girl dubbed only Jane Doe by the police since no family came to claim her headless body when it was found

The competition begins

Our first contestant is Aurore, who calls herself the "white sheep" of her family. She inadvertently insults the other teens for their lives and compares herself to each of them.

She sings that she deserves to return to life as she's destined to do great things and she’s What The World Needs. There’s also some undertone of her parents putting a ton of pressure on her and parts about her brother seeing her for who she truly is

The next contestant is Marc Anciel, a promising young writer who dreams of having a man to love him, but is instead stuck being single

He sings about his desire to meet a guy who shares his interests, to hold him during his darkest moments, and most importantly, to love him as he fears the day he will die alone with no one to hold when he starts to see the light.

The third contestant is Ismael Prisk, a transgender Pakistani boy living with his neglectful, transphobic, and emotionally abusive mother

He alternates between autotune-heavy gangsta rap about his hatred towards his mother and a ballad to his first real friend, Reshma

The fourth contestant is Jean Duparc, dubbed, “the most romantic boy in Paris.” His life was going wonderfully- He got the lead in the spring musical, got his boyfriend out of an abusive relationship, and his dad met someone. He wants to go back and see all of it happen

His song is a show-tune style that quickly changes to a heartbreaking lament about how he will miss the best moments of his life if he doesn’t escape limbo

The fifth contestant is Lacey Greene, a girl who wants to go back so she can take care of her brothers

She goes off on a sarcastic rant about how some of her classmates’ desires are so dumb before singing an emotional ballad about being the oldest sibling and the stress put on her at such a young age when her parents died.

Number six is Cosette Bellamy, one of the most miserable students in the class. Don’t let appearances fool you, Cosette is about as upset as they come. Their mother is an awful women with no regard for their feelings, their siblings treat them like dirt, and their father hardly says a thing, only offering comforting smiles

Cosette laments about how their family is anything but perfect and how they want to go back so they can finally say what needs to be said and fuck any consequences. They’re not going to die without letting those assholes get what’s coming to them.

Number seven is Simon O’Connor, your normal everyday demiboy who enjoys making music videos and lives with his aunt because his mother is an ass. He can’t imagine leaving Denise in limbo and would rather they live again

So, their song is a love ballad about the first moment he fell in love with Denise, from when they defended them against some bullies from school to when they held Simon as the class plummeted to their deaths

Number Eight is Denise Cabello, the physically strongest, but emotionally weakest. Their parents over work them at the restaurant, they have no time for their twin sister, and they’d rather let Simon continue living since his life is better

Their song is similar to Simon’s, but downplays Denise’s qualities until they break down crying and Simon is there to comfort them

Number nine is Reshma Laghari, one of the kindest rich girls you’ll ever meet. She starts of simple at first, downplaying her extravagant life and saying her family is just like any other, and she’s like any other girl… A girl with an obsession for magical girl manga, and a lesbian to boot, making her the odd one out at social scenes

She sings about her life as the black sheep everywhere she goes, from being an otaku, to having girls avoid her at parties so they don’t catch “gay,” and being the only Indian in a room of rich white kids.

While the teens sing about their hopes, dreams and fantasies, Jane Doe sings about despair

Jane's headless body was found in the wreckage, and she was assumed to be a member of the class. She was decapitated in the accident and her body was unclaimed. Her spirit has no memory of who she was and no idea what will happen to her in the afterlife.

After hearing Jane's tale, the students rally together and hold a birthday party for her featuring a rewritten birthday song, sharing a tender moment with each other

Finally, Mireille sings of her feelings towards her family, how her father treats her and her brother, how her mom had been holding on by a thread lately, and how all her repressed anger had seemed dropped away in the moment the roller coaster derailed

To her, it felt like being weightless on a cloud made of sugar

At last, it is time for the vote, but Fu changes the rules. He tells Aurore that she alone will get the deciding vote

Having a crisis of conscience, she she calls for a vote, saying that Jane is the only one who doesn't have memories to take to the afterlife with her, and the others decide to send her back.

Giving them all a warm “thank you,” Jane steps through a portal and starts a new life as Zoé Lee, the daughter of a tech mogul and the Style Queen

Eventually, Fu shorts out, repeating "Ride the Cyclone" before the remaining teens hold hands as their spirits travel to whatever comes next

[m0oranshi]

Diary of a cinephile - Entry 2

Want to get away from life and and watch top notch movies instead?

I’ve been extremely depressed and sick and unable to do much more than watch movies to block out my thoughts in the past two weeks. I haven‘t written a diary of recommendations in ages, but I feel like I’ll feel better if I pour out my love for my favorites, because I haven’t seen or talked about them with anyone. So... I just have to vent about their awesomeness and I want more people to enjoy them because they deserve recognition.

This one will be... Wow.

It’s bound to cure a little bit of sadness or at least get away from it for a while.

Every single one is different but so unique and amazing, from time-bending thriller, to life and loss, to stopmotion, to romance, to hell, to a man in a sheet walking around the whole movie and somehow it’s perfect... I have so many things that will blow your mind and I can’t keep these gems to myself anymore.

This will be in no specific order. They are all awesome.

I’ll post links as usual to the trailers, it’s up to you to watch them. I won’t give any spoilers though. You’re safe.

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A Ghost Story - Dir David Lowery

Ghost 2: Hello.

Ghost 1: Hi.

Ghost 2: I'm waiting for someone.

Ghost 1: Who?

Ghost 2: I don't remember.

Genre: Romance, Drama, Mystery

Trailer (please don’t watch it if you want to be surprised)

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I can’t, again, write a synopsis without spoiling anything. So I’m going to write it in a question: How long are you willing to wait, and stay, for the person you love, even if you don’t really know if you’ll ever see them again, even if you don’t really know why, when or even how?

This movie is near impossible to explain. There is very little dialogue but it’s striking as hell. I never knew you could feel so much for an actual sheet without an expression that doesn’t talk. It drags on like crazy at times (there is a scene with a pie and I counted, it’s literally one shot for 3 minutes straight and I admit that was weird in the beginning) but in the grand scheme of it all, the slowness, the sudden fastness, the silence, it all adds to the dreadful flavor this movie brings that I haven’t really felt from a movie before. Boy, is this an experience if you’re open to it. And I don’t think I’ll shake this feeling soon.

If you are into symbollic shit and want a movie where you can really lose track of time in, (I watched it while half awake and it was like a lucid dream) I recommend it. Think of the opposite of The Avengers and if that sounds horrible to you, don’t watch, you’ll hate it and think it’s some artsy-fartsy bullshit. Just being real here.

‘A Ghost Story’ with it’s thriller-like name is ironically one of the most romantic/saddest things I’ve ever seen.

+ Bonus point: the main character is a person in a sheet. C’mon.

++ Bonus point: This fucking epic soundtrack.

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- Gifted (2017) - Dir Marc Webb

Mary Adler: “He's a good person. He wanted me before I was smart.“

Genre: Drama, Family

Trailer (Safe to watch)

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A young girl is gifted/cursed by being way ahead of everyone her age in intellect, something that runs in the family, and her uncle tries to give her a normal life, a happy life, a life any kid deserves by making friends and whatnot, while others think she deserves and is created for ‘more’.

This one struck me harder than I thought because it started relatively sweet, but then adults got involved and made everything difficult. Near the end I had to burry my face in a blanket to stop my crying because it got a little too close to home (not that I’m a genius or know at all how horrible it would be like to be ‘gifted’ like that, but some scenes are things anybody can relate to, really.)

Anybody has felt like the ‘odd one out’ at some point, and the unfairness of how you are treated when you are slightly different and how people jump onto that opportunity like vultures just struck such a cord with me. The child actress is absolutely brilliant, the best I’ve seen in a while, I generally wanted to jump through the screen to hug her because for a second I thought she wasn’t acting, that’s how good she is.

+ Bonus point: A one eyed cat becomes a major plot point.

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- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - dir Martin McDonagh

Mildred Hayes: “This didn't put an end to shit, you fucking retard; this is just the fucking start. Why don't you put that on your ‘Good Morning Missouri fucking wake up’ broadcast, bitch?“

Genre: Drama, Black Comedy

Trailer (safe to watch)

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(If you don’t like cursing look away now. Personally, concidering the circumstances of this poor mother’s rage, I think it’s entirely justified.)

A mother who recently lost her daughter by a horrific murder tries to stirr up her small community and the insanely lazy police force to finally do something, and look for the perpetrator, who is still out there.

I love black humor, but this one was very, very... black. I don’t know how you can be so funny and yet deal with such horrific things at the same time, but they pulled it off so, so well.

In a matter of minutes you feel like you are part of this little town and you get just as frustrated as any and every character on the screen, they are all written so well, it’s as if you’ve known them for years. It was so easy to get into the whole story.

Just after five minutes it’s impossible to stop watching. The lead character ( Frances McDormand ) is just simply amazing, I think she was nominated last year too and I can see why. I’m not a mother, but I could feel her heartbreak every second.

+ Bonus Point: No unecessary stupid romantic bullshit, congrats Hollywood, slowly you’re learning and realise that when you see a man and a woman they can be friends.

++ Bonus Point: same director of ‘In Bruges’ and ‘Seven Psychopaths’ so I feel like a fish stuck on a bait already because I adore those movies, but heh... I am happy to be captured once again. I LOVE him.

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- Triangle (2009) - Dir Christopher Smith 

????: - IF. THEY. BOARD. KILL. THEM. -

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Trailer (I really recommend you don’t watch this one)

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I can’t really explain short what this... this... thing is without spoiling anything. Some attractive people straight out of glamour magazines get shipwrecked on their out of a magazine yacht and they get onto another ship. If I say more I ruin all the fun.

I think this might actually be my favorite out of the ones I saw because I remember sitting for an hour straight with a hand covering my mouth with how insane it was. I didn’t know what to believe for a long, long time.

The beginning is such a false representation of what’s to come, and I remember trying to begin watching it years back but I fell for their trick and quit. Now I’ve seen all of it it’s actually up there with some of my favorite psychological thrillers, and I’ve seen ALOT.

But, like I said before, you honestly can’t talk about anything without spoiling it, so don’t even look up the ratings or trailer or synopsis. Just trust me, I went into this knowing nothing and I was never more grateful. (Though know you’ll need a strong stomach at times because there is unexpected blood and gore.)

+ Bonus point: UGH it kills me not being able to tell how brilliant the end is. But yes. The end. And all the crazy foreshadowing.

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INTERLUDE

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The Void - Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie

Genre: Horror, mystery, something someth-

trailer

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HAHA I’m just kidding, this was excruciating. Please don’t see it. I’m sorry but they should be punished for this so I had to include. If you want to have a good laugh though, be my guest. So much potentional, so much promise of a different layer of fear, and it goes absolutely nowhere and it’s so sad. It’s not like I’m stupid and just ‘don’t get it’, there is nothing to get. I don’t think the writers even knew what they were getting at.

I sound so mean, but I am mean because I was robbed of my time.

Yes, yes... they did a good portrayal of Hell. But ironically Hell was sitting through this movie. After seeing ‘Triangle’, a movie that ACTUALLY portays Hell well in my opinion, this is just... amazingly bad. Good special effects can’t save this movie for the life of it.

(I wanted an interlude because making this is pretty draining.)

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END INTERLUDE

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- A Simple Plan (1998) - Sam Raimi 

“Sometimes good people do evil things. Four million dollars and plenty of change. They've worked hard all their lives, but they still can't afford the American Dream. Stealing it is even better.”

“Do you ever feel evil?”

Genre: Crime, Suspense

Trailer (safe to watch)

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Three dudes find a bag of 4 million dollars. Sounds like a slam dunk to me, but it isn’t easy at all because a ton of problems come with it. Who did it actually belong to, is it morally right to keep it, what if the police is after it, does it mean you’re stealing...? What if money corrupts and friendships aren’t like they seem to be and how far will you go to keep it?

This one is straight out of the Coen’s brothers directory, but I’ve looked and I don’t think they have any affiliation with it. Anyway, it’s sooooo reminiscent of Fargo with the set and tone and everything, I honestly thought they had something to do with it. If you’re familliar with Fargo, you’ll absolutely adore this one.

It’s such a dreadful but such a true tale about how people can act ‘differently’ once given an opportunity. You might end up thinking ‘I would never do that’, but... wouldn’t you? You’ve never been in the place of these characters and it’s impossible to imagne, and seeing the true nature of how abhorent you truly can be, can be confrontational.

Everything you try to do leads to more complications, and it’s hard to imagne where you’d say ‘no, enough is enough’.

It’s not an easy watch because it’s way too true but I adore it.

+ Bonus point: Billy Bob Thornton. If you’re not familliar, get on it. He’s amazing, always.

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Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson

Oracle: It may snow tonight.

Boss: Really? Thank you very much, wow.

Oracle: To whom it may concern.

Boss: She sees the future!

King: Ha! No. She understands TV.

Trailer (safe to watch)

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In a dystopian near-future Japan, dogs have become a menace because of some dog-flu virus, so they all get deported to a seperate island. But there are conspiracies flowing around, vaccinations being made, and the dogs do whatever they can to stay alive on this god forsaken island of trash.

I never liked dogs, sue me. But for some reason I KNEW this was going to be an experience so I bought a ticket, and holy crap was it worth it. Every single frame is a piece of art. Every. Single. One. (I want an artbook for this movie. Or a poster. Just... ANYTHING because it’s sugar to my eyes.)

I was so overwhelmed with how gorgeous it was, it was hard to concentrate sometimes, but I walked out with such a huge smile that lasted for days. The humor is on-point and yet so dry, just enough to pull you out of that overwhelmed trance. You end up caring for each and every one of the dogs because they are all perfectly rounded characters, better written characters than you see in humans sometimes. It’s mindblowing. The voice acting is perfectly cast and... Just. This movie is a dessert, something we don’t deserve but we got it anyway.

+ Bonus Point: Edward Norton voice acting. I am in love with his voice.

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WELL. I’ll make another one sooner than I thought because I have so many more to share, but honestly making these posts is a task (a lovely one though) but I have life duties. I didn’t even get to share my favorite ones yet, so stay tuned (nobody will read this but whatever)