#chaotic content

[laurelwen]

Interview with Gregory Read (director of Like Minds)

So, I had to transcribe this so I can use it for some new Like Minds content I'm working on (analysis), so I figured I might as well share the work with all of you. Ngl, I laughed and laughed at him saying he didn't want the characters to be gay. Honey, did you even watch these scenes as you were filming?

He had to die.  It was a necessary means to an end.

Read:  What I was interested in was looking into juvenile psychology and looking at why do we have sociopaths in our society.

Narrator:  17 year old Alex, played by Eddie Redmayne, is charged with the murder of his friend Nigel (Tom Sturridge).  Lacking any substantial evidence, the police call in forensic psychologist, Sally Rowe (Toni Collette) to help prove his guilt.  But what she discovers is a tangled friendship full of enigma. 

"Why do you want to know what I believe in?"

"It'd be a good place to start."

"Gestalt."

"Gestalt..."

"An organized whole in which each individual part affects every other, but the whole being more important than the sum of its parts."

"Yeah, I'm familiar with first year psychology theory.  Should I be impressed?"

"It's not what it is.  It's how you use it."

Read:  I found this great paper on gestalt psychology and it was really fascinating.  It was such a...almost like a door opening to me, because it started talking about how you can have two sociopaths that can come together into a close environment and then create something bigger between themselves.

Have you ever had that feeling that there was someone inside your head, listening to your thoughts?  I read this article on twinning, about how two people can communicate across countries, through their minds.  There was something about this guy.

Read:  I was aware that in gestalt relationships, they tend to be a, not always, but a lot of times it was partnering, where it was a husband and wife team, or two gay men.  So I was interested in that concept, but I didn't want Alex to be gay.  And I didn't want Nigel to be overtly gay--I think he's asexual.

"What'd you do with the knife?"

"I sense some hostility."

"Oh, do you reckon."

"Let's just call it fingerprint insurance."

Read:  I constructed those two different types of characters.  One which is controlling and very driven by his success and career.  The other who is totally insular and is obsessive.  And then draw them together into a close proximity and then basically let them loose and see what happens to them, and how they fire off each other, and how you end up with this kind of cat and mouse type game. 

"I don't want any part of this."

"Well, I'm sorry, Jack, but you were the one who got inside MY head."

"Well get out of mine."

"It's too late for that."

Read:  I wanted to use colors that weren't overt.  And I wanted to kind of let the school kind of be more womb-like amongst the urban sprawl of...urban decay.  So I wanted the outside world to be kind of these steely kind of colors, and greens, and darker tones.  And I wanted the school to be more mahogany and kind of warm tones.  And the reason for that is really to give a sense of the psychology of it.  And when you go into the interrogation room, I want it to be stark and bright and short focus.

"Tell me about Nigel."

"Nigel got what he wanted."

"And what was that?"

"Eternity."

Read:  Well the train is definitely, it's like Dante's descent to Hell.  It gave me this feeling, like it was almost like an umbilical cord to the outside world.  This train that rattles on its unsteady path between the womb-like school and the outside world, which is cold and bleak and hard and true and rough around the edges, where the school is pristine and perfect and starched collars and, you know.  So to me it was just showing those two worlds and then bringing them together in a gestalt amongst themselves, so the two world create the environment that creates these characters. 

(watch the video here)

[Like Minds Masterpost]

[ruubesz-draws]

Monty would be the feral uncle

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[beescake]

oh to trust another troll w a sharp object against yr head

[galacticrainbowsaz]

Tim, running on 34 hours of no sleep: Do you think it's called a dick because someone was really angry at a guy nicknamed Dick and got his words mixed up?

Dick, horrified: Tim nO. That's not-

Jason, running on 2 weeks no sleep: Close, but no

Tim and Dick: *confused glance*

Jason: It was actually a guy called Richard who wanted to show off to a girl

Dick: Jay...

Jason, in a dramatic voice: He doth declared "I am your Dick, and this is mine!"

Dick: Jay, stop

Jason: Then another Richard heard the tale and did the same thing to his wife. And then another, until it spread like wildfire.

Dick: JASON!

Jason: We call this "The Crowning of the Dick" *pointed smirk to Dick*

Tim: *wheezing* Is that... Pfff, is that what you say to Babs?

*5 minutes later, Bruce is in the bath with his Batman™ Rubber Ducky when he hears muffled screaming, laughing and cursing in the distance. He chooses to ignore it*

[martianbugsbunny]

U got some actors that are like 'yeah these characters sure are important to each other but I couldn't say about them potentially being a couple' and then you've got Steve Blum who is like 'no yeah they're in love, they're married, they live on Lira San together where Kallus does the gardening and Zeb does the handiwork, oh and by the way they're having mpreg babies together and the furry purple guy is carrying' rip to everybody else but he's just built different

[neo--queen--serenity]

why is he like this

[chand-ki-priyatama]

~What's your greatest fantasy ?

-To ever be loved and cherished

[sodamnbored]

When things go wrong on a quest:

Frank, anxious: Oh we are so fucked. Do you hear sirens? I hear sirens.

Leo: Yeah. Mortals, man. They’ve always got the cops on speed dial.

Frank: You’ve been to prison right?

Leo: Well, the wilderness school wasn’t exactly prison, but sure. I know the general idea.

Frank: So how do you think a guy like me would do in prison?

Leo, appraisingly: Baby face. Kind eyes. Soft skin. Cute tummy.

Leo, solemnly: You’d be very popular.

Frank, relaxing: Oh. That’s good.

Leo: No, that’s very bad.

[hamletshoeratio]

Apparently, Eloise is a mean girl and is not a girls' girl???

[arcanegifs]

[grumpepper]

just life lately

[edwardallenpoe]

Mariana and Sherlock's favorite pass time is embarrassing John, they meet up on Sundays to record their "blush-o-meter" results of the week.

[kindahoping4forever]

Michael scaring Luke on stage in Manchester 👻

[heather--moors]

New spring vibe 📖

Insta: hmariemurray

Newsletter: homeward

[rockystuff]

chaotic academia stuff!!!!

oversized clothes

THE DEEPEST EYEBAGS POSSIBLE

eating food that should be microwaved cold because who has the time?

bathing in a cold pond/river when going on nature trips

shoes that are falling apart but can't be thrown away because they've become more than a simple materialistic possession, they've became a companion in many of your unreasonable trips, so unreasonable they've made you feel alive for the first time in quite a lot. Also there's funny little drawing on them.

so. much. tea.

and of the weirdest flavors too

taking notes but not being able to read them later 'cause you forgot how to write halfway thru

"dresscode: Elegant"? Not on my watch

no I'm not coming to the party... wait, what?... there's gonna be alcohol?... WELL THEN I SUPPOSE-

favorite film: an Asian underground production named "bogloglo" which only comes in original language with portuguese subtitles, but understood the meaning of it thanks to the western music and the exaggerated expressions. It's also been watched only by about 4 people before the only ever existing copy got eaten by a pig.

do you want to debate politics in a constructing and not threatening and bigoted way? hell yeah

"video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor." (I see and approve the better things, but I follow the worse.)