#a good film

[forthehonoroflove]

LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) requested by anonymous

[journalofanobody]

Sinnerman

[artist-issues]

I would like to change my answer: A Streetcar Named Desire is the most disturbing film I’ve ever seen. 

Maybe I should dwell on it or watch it again before making statements. But I just feel like, for my own sanity, I need to refute a few things that the movie touches on but does not resolve with any kind of hope. Because it’s the kind of movie that worms into your head and confuses you.

- If your husband beats you up and you go back to him because you’re attracted to him, that’s not love, it’s lust. Stella and Stanley are not crazy about each other. He’s obsessed with getting whatever he wants and she’s deluded.

- Blanche is a liar and nobody made her into a liar by cruelty. She started out by being cruel, driving her first husband to suicide. Then she just let her guilt serve as an excuse for every other selfish, self-satisfying thing she did, including taking advantage of an underage kid.  And all the while she acts like a victim. 

- Stanley is represented as the only character being honest in the film for most of it. He’s a brute but he sees Blanche for what she is. His one big lie is that he loves Stella. And then he lies to her about raping her sister. Stella is not an honest character, either: she lies to herself, like Stanley really loves her and has some part of a gentleman in him. Blanche, as I previously said, is a liar through and through. The only character who is depicted as honest, without lies, is Mitch. And what do they do with that one honest character? They have him kiss Blanche, then tell her she’s not good enough to marry once he learns the truth about her. No forgiveness. No redemption. Just more self-serving, with a dash of self-righteousness thrown in. 

- And then at the end, Stella goes up and lives away from Stanley and vows never to go back to him? But she just lives…ONE apartment away from him, with Eunice? Am I supposed to take this to mean that Blanche’s response to being raped and getting taken away to a madhouse IS the metaphorical light that the whole movie has been foreshadowing, a light which finally shows Stanley for what he is to his wife?  That’s DUMB. You know why that’s dumb? Because NOBODY can watch that movie and be like, “well at least Stella finally left him.” No way. The movie did not build up to Stella making any sort of lasting, firm-willed decisions, much less the one big decision that her whole character is built around avoiding.  Not only that, but why would Blanche serve as an adequate light, shedding truth on Stanley’s cruel nature? She, herself, is a liar, cruelly drove her husband to suicide, and took advantage of not one but multiple men, including a teenage boy, and has been getting drunk off of her sister’s liqueur and lying to her ever since. Stella claims that she knew “the real Blanche” before Blanche turned into this disreputable woman, and so I suppose that’s supposed to make us believe that Stella would see how broken her sister is and take it as proof of Stanley’s unfaithfulness and brutality. But you know what, that’s not enough. Because it means Stella’s whole decision to leave Stanley is based on the idea that Blanche was fine before Stanley did this to her. And Blanche may not have been the victim of rape before Stanley raped her, but Blanche was also not fine beforehand, and Stella steadfastly chose not to believe that. 

In a story that is all about a woman who never wants to be seen for what she is, by anyone, the ending should not be centered around a character who just…goes right on picking and choosing what she wants to believe. It should have ended with Stella seeing that her sister was a liar and a sexually promiscuous tramp, and then Stella should have moved out to take care of her sister unconditionally anyway. And Stanley should’ve died. That’s how the film should’ve ended.

Not some wish-washy “oh I’ll never go back to him. I’ll just live in the apartment right above his while my sister is remanded to the insane asylum.” How is that a good resolution? When everything the audience knows about Stella literally up until this point is that she doesn’t make decisions based on truth, (BECAUSE she picks and chooses what to believe in) she makes decisions based on feelings. And as soon as she feels sorry for the man living literally ten steps away from her, or gets lonely, she’ll run right back down there to him.

Thanks. Great movie. What lovely symbolism about light and truth you completely fumbled at the end.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[rainydayspecial]

[browsethestacks]

Arthouse Muppets

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

[elainiisms]

it's almost like... if you play a movie in 10 cinemas worldwide, it doesn't do as well as it could 🤯🤯

[utilitycaster]

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[thedeadtravelfast]

this is the plot right?

[prokopetz]

Insisting that there's only one good MCU film can be a much more effective way of winding up MCU fans than insisting that they all suck, but you've gotta pick the right one. If you claim Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the only good MCU film, they'll probably just be like "I disagree, but I can understand how you'd feel that way"; if you insist with a straight face that Thor: The Dark World is the only good MCU film you can get them to write entire essays about how wrong you are.

[kristina100000]

i randomly bring this up to people once in 2 years just to remind them love is universal

[captainfantasticalright]

The Omen and Good Omens: side by side scenes.

Arrival/Birth of the Antichrist:

Arrival of the demonic nanny:

Birthday celebration of the “Antichrist”:

Arrival of the Hellhound:

Entrances to manors:

Discussing burnt records due to buildings mysteriously going up in flames:

*and some more.