#cinema of decay

[zombilenium]

Red Cinema Kossuth Mozi, Hungary,

Courtesy: Urbex-Travel

[hotdogmexicano]

Pulse (回路) - 2001

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

[vertigoartgore]

Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife and Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).

[jesusdeadbeatdaughter]

Watching a movie in the 21st century is like, why would I pay to watch a movie about the 70s.... when i can watch a movie from the 70s right now for free?

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

tbh to me the continuous existence of st*r wars is proof of white satan like the demon is constantly being fed, always, eternally and the fanatics know no end to it yet they remain hungry for they are given trash to eat but what's the difference after so many decades, it's all the same

[aerial-jace]

There’s a bit of a difference between skeletons being in such poor condition that archeologists cannot tell the sex, and the fact that when skeletons are in good condition sex is easily observable. I fucking despair that you’re about to graduate and you cannot tell the difference between the two circumstances

Why yes, I can tell the difference. We were talking, afterall, about a hypothetical future in which taphonomic processes and just general decay of the living matter in the bone tissue is going to take place! Did you even think before sending in this ask? You're almost as dumb as the person who said coffins exist now implying they didn't in the past.

[ldartefotovideo]

[whetstonefires]

I am a bit surprised at your tags saying you like jar jar, I don't really know anybody who's a fan in 2023. What's the appeal there, would you say?

Did people like JarJar more in the past? I remember when the prequels were new, his poor actor almost died from the harassment. Surely the venom against JarJar has only weakened.

But mmmmm...I guess what I enjoy about JarJar is he just. He sucks so bad. Nobody has any use for him. He's not just bad at emergencies and space and knowing you have to pay for food, he's not even good at Gungan-ing.

But he's just kinda allowed to be like that. He's there. The other protagonists are varying levels of Ugh Why but they don't try to solve him. He gets Recognition From His People at the end of TPM and fails his way upward in galactic politics and has good intentions and tries sincerely and fucks up so so bad, and is dumb as hell.

He doesn't get punished by the story for being a loser. He's allowed.

That's what made so many people so mad at him back when, and I do get it because any scene he's in is hard to take seriously, he's walking bathos, he's like Original Swamp Yoda without the redeeming kung fu drama. But also wow yikes no.

Let me sit with this a bit and let me see if I can turn this vibe into words better.

Like @husborth was totally correct in saying the whole Gungan plotline was a waste of screentime, a fun little excuse plot allowed to run riot due to unchecked directorial hubris, and contributed to the prequel films being atrociously paced pieces of cinema. But (somewhat consequently) there's something luxurious about JarJar Binks being allowed to go around existing so much, something I think is prototypical of the whole prequel tone and its contrast to the snappy war-film energy of the original trilogy in a way that...really works to create the atmospheric contrast between life in the Republic and life under the Empire.

The Republic was a bloated ancient mess of a government riddled with corruptions, and badly out-of-whack power balances and decayed support nets that weren't technically corruption but weren't working well either, and inefficiency.

And also what the fascists like to call decadence. You know?

Like one of the consequences of having a tolerant diverse society is that even when poorly run and afflicted with capitalism it is going to be full of fantastically annoying weirdos who don't have anything better to do than embarrass people by talking, and there's nothing to be done about that that morally can be. You can't Force Choke people for annoying and have a free society. We all gotta make our peace with the fact that JarJar Binks has every right to exist.

Not that JarJar Binks is necessary to any specific piece of media. I am not advocating for annoying gag sidekicks in general. But I am saying that JarJar Binks is metaphorically inevitable, whenever people are allowed to just kinda be.

So his presence on some level feels political to me, inasmuch as Star Wars are actually political films at all, which isn't very much. But definitely not none either!

Also I am old enough to have grown less susceptible to secondhand embarrassment so I am able to forgive JarJar his cringe. He can still be a little painful to watch! But I do like that he's there.

[dolcecrush]

𝗝𝗨𝗝𝗨𝗧𝗦𝗨 𝗞𝗔𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗦 🗝️

𝗐𝖺𝗋𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌 : 𝗇𝗈𝗇𝖾

𝗇𝗈𝖻𝖺𝗋𝖺, 𝗂𝗍𝖺𝖽𝗈𝗋𝗂, 𝗆𝖾𝗀𝗎𝗆𝗂.

YUUJI ITADORI

𖹭 This man behaves very tenderly with you, he is literally a dough, he loves you to pamper him.

☆ After the death of almost all his friends you will have to support him, it is not easy at all and he ends up blaming himself for it.

𖹭 He likes them to sleep hugged

☆ I would try to take you to the movies often or other places.

☆ This man doesn't care what you are, he only cares about your feelings.

𖹭 Gojo gives advice to Itadori

MEGUMI FUSHIGURO

𖹭 He may seem cold or unfriendly, but he knows how to love a person.

𖹭 Maybe with others he may seem cold to you, but in private he lets himself be loved, that is, he lets himself do what you want.

☆ Even if you don't believe it, it can be decayed by some things.

𖹭 He usually brings out his happy side, he is the best in the world Megumi, he will take care of you, he will attend to you and he will give you whatever you want as tokens of love

☆ Nobara and Itadori make fun when you get angry with him

𖹭 Nobara and Itadori are happy with their relationship, and Megumi likes that you get along well with them.

NOBARA

☆ This woman is very imperative, you will have to deal with that

𖹭 He doesn't mind affection in public, he even comes to love it.

☆ She likes it when you go shopping with her, that's all she needs.

𖹭 He's afraid of losing you, I know it sounds silly, but he's really very afraid.

☆ They would go to the park or the cinema once or twice a week

𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗦 : 𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗖𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗥

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #646 - LILYA 4-EVER

Bleak and overwhelming, this is a movie that has haunted me since I first saw it. Lukas Moodysson’s best film is also one of the best Swedish films of all time, up there with Bergman and Andersson’s. This is as uncompromising a film there is, shot in whatever hellhole location in Estonia they dug up to stand in for Soviet Russia - and the feeling of humanity’s grime and decay lingers all these years later. 

[vimara00]

just passing by, what if our dearest darling reader finally got to escape from the hold of the "bad" yandere men but you know, felt life is a little lacking without her yandere shigaraki and finally understood why she should had just stayed with him instead of trying to refuse plus she knows that shigaraki loves her and he is alone so she worries for him so... now reader will have to crawl back from where she came from explain it to him and tell him how much she love him.

I didn't know you were from Argentina that's amazing

- Anon 04-04

Yandere Shigaraki x Reader

Hi everyone, it's Vi! ✨ I received this request from an anon and thought it was a great idea to write about it! Thanks anon for requesting 💕 Hope you enjoy! ❤️ (Again, sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes, english is not my first language 🙏🏻)

All characters reservations to Horikoshi

Warnings: Yandere content and fluff?

It's been three months since I ran away from Shigaraki's hold. I had been with him for seven months till I saw the chance to scape when the league had a meeting with other villains. At first I thought that I could go back to my old life but the chances of Shigaraki finding me again were too high so I moved to another city and kept a low profile. I didn't asked for the heroes' help as I knew the villain would killed them if I did.

The fist week I enjoyed my freedom to the fullest; I went to the park for walks, went to the cinema or to eat alone at restaurants. However, there were times where I found myself thinking "He would've enjoyed this movie" or "He would've loved this certain place" and, as the days passed, it felt strange not to have him around. On Fridays, we would order take out and watch romantic animes he didn't like but watched just because I liked it and I would end up falling asleep on his arms. Since escaping, I couldn't fall asleep without him so, in order to sleep, all I could do was grabbing a pillow and pretending it was him who I was spooning. Also, every morning I would prepared breakfast for two without realising and a sense of sadness would invaded me each time. I didn't know what to do anymore as I find everything boring; Was life before him this dull? Could it be that he made my days more interesting? It made me really angry that I missed him more every day after hoping to scape from his place for seven months and thinking about going back to his arms made me feel some kind of relieved. However, I stopped those thoughts before I grabbed my keys and leave because It probably was the stockholm syndrome talking and definitely not her being in love with him.

On particular day, I went to the store to buy something to eat and the cashier asked me out. I felt so lonely without Shigaraki that I thought it was a good idea to try to move on and find a reason to stay. So the next day, he took me to an arcade where he tried to win all the stuff animals but couldn't get any and we had ice cream sat on a bench while looking at the stars. It was supposed to be a romantic and intimate moment but, with all honesty, all I could think was how my Shiggy would've won all the prizes just for me and how I really wished it was him next to me watching the sky and not this poor guy who has been talking for fifteen minutes but I wasn't listening. He even took my hand on the way home but it wasn't the same; It wasn't Tomura's rough hand grabbing mine delicately with his pinky finger lift to not decay me. It weren't his lips whose kissed my cheek because if it were his, my cheeks would be blushing like they always do when he kisses me. I entered my house (it didn't felt right to call it home without him in it), alone, and went to find an old Tomura's t shirt (the one I scaped with on) and cry with it in my bedroom floor. I was hard to admit that I missed him but even harder not to be with him. That night, I cryed myself to sleep

My final straw was when, the next morning, I saw on the news that the league's hideout had been attacked by the heroes and apparently, Shigaraki had fought with them but his whereas remain unknown. Tears where rolling down my face without realising. I was so worried yet so scared that something bad had happened to him and I wasn't by his side. What if he died believing I didn't loved him and that I left him for it? I won't be able to live with that thought. I had to find him and make sure he was alright. I needed to tell him what I felt before it was too late.

It was hard to find their location but thanks to Toga answering my phone call, I did. I stood at the door unable to move as my thoughts were running wild and field me with insecurity. What if it was too late and he doesn't love me anymore? What if he is mad at me and wants revenge? Would he want to take me back after all this time? But all of it was interrupted as I was already opening the door. Some of the league members that had survive were hiding here and once I entered, everything got quiet. Horrified looks from everyone in the room but I'm only looking at him (Sorry, I had to put this phrase from Taylor's song hehe), he looked like he haven't been sleeping or eating at all and had many new scars. His eyes were locked in mines and he told everyone to get lost as he needed privacy. The room was silent again and before he could say anything, I said " I know you are probably mad at me and don't want to see me anymore but hear me out first. I need to tell you the truth! All this months I thought I wanted my old life back and that I missed it but once I got it, it was not what I was expecting because I felt that something was missing and that something was you. At first, I didn't want to admit that I cared about you but I realized that life without you had not meaning and if to have freedom I need to be away from you, then I don't want it. I want to be with you but not obliged this time, I want to do it because I love you" At this point my face was on fire and my eyes field with tears but so were Tomura's. He hugged me tight as if he was scared that I would disappear again, kissed my temple and whispered "I was so scared, thought you wouldn't come back to me. I know I'm not the best with words and defenitly not with emotions, but I want to say that I love you and I promise to never let go of you. I promise I'll protect you and to make you happy, just please stay with me" his voice break at the end as he cupped my cheeks tenderly and kissed me with so much love and affection. We stayed hugging each other for a while as I said "I would never leave you ever again"

While you thought you were so capable of scaping and "hiding" from him, he had already known your new location and even had cameras inside your new apartment. He had people following you, telling him what you were doing and remember the guy you went on a date with? Well, he has vanished from earth, Shigaraki made sure of it. He have you time to realised how much you need him and if you happened to enjoy your life without, he would've made sure you never see the sunlight as he'll keep you locked in his room. But you'll never know any of that.

[cctinsleybaxter]

god speaking of, npr just put out an article on the best sex scenes in cinema (prompted by zendaya tennis movie..?) and the picks were so dismal i felt like i was decaying. someone said oppenheimer.

[brother-emperors]

hey there kay! could you please elaborate on antony being a rotten archetype of a gladiator? cos to me he always was this stereotypical macho warrior, and now i just can't stop thinking about this

part of it is my own brand of bullshit: that things repeat, and the repetition is Worse. the alliance between Octavian-Antony-Lepidus is a worse version of the alliance between Crassus-Pompey-Caesar. Antony-Octavian is a worse Gladiator-Statesman dynamic to Cassius-Brutus (Agrippa-Octavian are something else, and exempt from this thought exercise) Pompey-Crassus are a more volatile version of whatever Sulla-Lucullus had going on. etc.

so Antony is a decayed (or rotting) archetype of a Gladiator Archetype because he’s trying to occupy several different political stages but does not adhere to the rules of their respective genres. You do not, actually, get to have your cake and eat it too when each of the stages you desire to occupy want to do violence to the other stage.

He's most remembered as a soldier and a lover, though, so I tend to line him up more with a Gladiator since gladiators occupy a similar conflicting space to what Antony occupies.

Spectacles of Gender: Enacting the Masculine in Ancient Rome and Modern Cinema, Darlene Juschka

the ones that clash the most are Antony's empire building agenda with Kleopatra (rivals with Octavian in this) and Antony's theatrical-dramatic-soldier identity. Cicero uses gladiator as an insult for Antony, but Antony does enjoy occupying a gladiatorial space. The arena IS theater and it IS political theater, and the arena of war and politic is a place where everything intersects for a spectacle of violence. the body gladiator is one that is admired and rejected because it occupies a third conflicting space in Rome, much like Antony's blurring of traditional-acceptable behaviors and social norms.

the problem with Antony is that he doesn't fully commit to the demands of the role of the gladiator, fractures over his identity as an empire builder (specifically his identity as a Roman and how he is rejected fully by the Rome that Octavian has been building in his absence), and collapses inward as a military leader (Parthia, Actium)

ULTIMATELY what makes him a Decayed Gladiator Archetype to me is that, to walk back to War and Politics as an Arena of Spectacle, some gladiators who died in the arena were given monuments, remembered, grieved, whereas Antony is denied all of that (compared to previously mentioned Gladiator Archetypes, Sulla gets his funeral, Cassius' reputation is allowed to live on through Messalla Corvinus, etc)

[romanceyourdemons]

cronos (1992), guillermo del toro’s debut film, is a very interesting piece of vampire cinema. compared to del toro’s later work, it definitely shows the seeds of themes he develops more in other films—transformation, sympathy with the monstrous, the juxtaposition between those who sacrifice others and those who sacrifice themselves for others—as well as motifs that appear elsewhere, including cockroaches, jarred specimens, liminal spaces, and a nonverbal child. however, in addition to laying the groundwork for del toro’s later film, this film also has an interesting position relative to other vampire film. this film focuses entirely on one individual’s transformation into a vampire while eliminating the person-to-person transmission of vampirism very typical of other vampire films—drawing the attention away from the hammer-horror danger of the formation of a colony of vampires and turning its eye to the horror of turning into something that must of necessity feed off of others to survive. it shows each step of the transformation in loving, repulsive, gothic detail, never glossing over the blood, the decay, the craving, and the pain, all viscerally physical elements that other vampire films only skim through on their way to a heavy handed philosophical argument. the gradual, grotesque change of jesús gris into something potentially definable as inhuman is flavored with metaphors of addiction, and presents the possibility of immortality as something that demands the dehumanization of others and leads to the dehumanization of oneself—a trade off the terminally ill and fabulously wealthy industrialist who is the villain of the film more than happily makes, but which the protagonist cannot bear to do. while unmistakably the work of a young filmmaker, cronos (1992) provides a refreshing and transfixing look at the vampire mythos and the connotations of immortality, and i would definitely recommend it

[legacieswcrp]

Question, what other groups are out there besides Stormcircle? How are relations, is there like little trades, is everyone kinda cool or distant with each other?

Currently there are four known factions:

StormClan, where we start, a once-nomadic Clan descended from lake Clan expatriates. Their motto is that no cat should suffer alone.

The Fallen, currently at high tension with StormClan, the mysterious original residents of Tallrock, returned after generations of absence. They are reclusive and strange in the eyes of StormClan, known to believe they are fundamentally different from other cats.

To the far south are the cinema cats, an unnamed faction of kittypets, loners, and former Clan cats who live together seasonally between a decaying cinema and a neglected park in Twolegplace. They're a quirky, friendly, free-spirited bunch who have historically been friendly but distant with StormClan.

And lastly, currently unaccounted for are the loyalists on Tallrock, descendants of a band of StormClan cats who refused to move from the mountainside generations ago. StormClan isn't sure if they're still alive up there, but every now and again, someone catches a glimpse of patrolling cats on the mountainside, their intentions obscure, their history unknown.

But anything could change as our stories progress, and first impressions might not always be as they seem.