#deathtrilogy

[igniakino]

Gerry

Directed by Gus Van Sant (2002)

“How do you think the hike is going so far?”

As soon as he mentioned Thebes I knew they were fucked. Based on true, tragic events, this film is a self-indulgent masterpiece. The first of Gus Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy”, Gerry kick started his run of small, low budget pieces of work including Elephant and Last Days. All unusual and unconventional in nature, these films fuelled Van Sant’s hunger for internalised reflection and the act of asking questions with answers that may never be found. This is a common motif in Van Sant’s filmography, even in bigger projects like My Own Private Idaho, and brings a sort of heavy blanketed comfort knowing that life is not about searching for those highly converted answers, but the small, intricate details of WHY we ask these questions. Films like Gerry feel like Van Sant severing his brain in two and pouring the contents on the screen, filling this barren landscape with a desert storm of his internal monologue. Of the whole trilogy, Gerry is the most alienating for casual audiences, with a pace as slow as molasses and dialogue that truly means nothing except to project the two Gerry’s inner workings. However, it’s definitely his bravest work, truly groundbreaking in commercial American narrative cinema. There is an all encompassing sense of impending doom that is draped across this desolate landscape, and from the very start of the film you can feel the inevitable ending looming over your shoulder. When it finally comes it knocks the wind out of you, and both you and the film have to come to terms with what has unfolded. Casey Affleck and Matt Damon play two lost, wandering souls who flicker in and out of the camera as if they themselves are mirages. They are strangers we are forced to know throughout the runtime, becoming intimately familiar with their mental states, opinions and even their unique language. We become their friends, we become lost and rambling with them, and it makes the climax of the film even more crushing. Van Sant has a talent in making the audience tragically accustomed to his protagonists. The experience of this film is extremely private. It is hypnotising, and forces introspection. I was so entranced by this, it’s a challenge for your brain. When there’s nothing but silence and landscape on screen your mind starts to think off track and you end up spiralling. what would I do if this was me? How would I cope? Would I give up? Is this what death is like? Is this what knowing death is like? You can only imagine what the characters themselves were thinking as they endlessly walked, almost as if they were on autopilot, only the rocks watching them. I was reminded a lot of The Odyssey. The search for your home, your beginning, surrounded by the unavoidable omens of death in a journey that seems to bring you nothing. In a way, Gerry is it’s own Greek tragedy, it’s own conquering of Thebes. I think this is genuinely one of the most terrifying movies I’ve ever seen. The stench of doom crawls across every frame and the hopelessness I felt outdoes almost every horror film I’ve come across, the sword of Damocles never more present. The bone deep loneliness and the heavy introspection you yourself are forced to deal with scares me to death. Staring, fixated at the screen I was made to face the truth, that nothing was here first and nothing will be here after, that barren wasteland is ineffable and that I am small and I will die knowing how small I am. It was a fear I knew but didn’t face, something that I reconciled with during the course of this film and grew slightly more comfortable with. This film made me discover new things about myself and my own relationship with death, and if that isn’t genius I don’t know what is. If you knew you were going to die, would you sit down and accept it or keep walking?

[joyffree]

Silent Death: A Psychological Thriller (Death Trilogy Book 2) by Mariëtte Whitcomb ➱ Book Release

Two years ago, five women went missing. Last year, ten disappeared. Both times, it happened in December.

Now it’s December again, and five more have vanished. To social worker, Madison Taylor, the women are not only her clients. They are her friends. Despite the recent discovery of the remains of five females, the police continue to be unhelpful because of the lifestyle the missing women lead.

Even after Madison is attacked and threatened, she stays determined to uncover the truth. How does her attacker know about the monster from her past? Madison’s identity was never made public.

Is this the work of a serial killer or something more horrific?

[quietnisse]

Tempted to do an " I aten't dead" version 😆 This one, meanwhile, is available in my #etsy shop! 🔺 💀 #epitaph #graveyard #gravestone #grave #cemeterylovers #tomb #tombstone #terrypratchett #death #deathtrilogy #deathquotes #iatentdead #red #black #folk #folkart #folklore #folktale #wingedskull (at Quiet Nisse Designs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdOZ4vMw_e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bayoucurse]

hello, congrats on your milestone! can i join to your fam? ale, she/her, writeblr: @sautrns. wip: the trilogy of death (page: /deathtrilogy) quote: "i am the queen of darkness and you will kneel before me." thanks and have a nice day/night!

thank you!!! and yes of course 🥰

+added to the page!

join the celebration!

[spockshair]

ASHFGAKGKALSD DEATHTRILOGY COMES OVER TODAY AND WE'RE GONNA WATCH WRATH OF KHAN, SEARCH FOR SPOCK AND THE VOYAGE HOME

she's gonna watch them for the first time

im going to watch them.... AGAIN.

expecting river of tears and liveblogging. *cough*

[calkitozuo-blog]

Plans for New Year's Eve

My parents and siblings go out of house... my besty comes over and we are gonna have a partyy!!1!1

NO. Not really. 

Instead we are gonna eat lots of unhealthy food, drink unhealthy drinks (no alcohol tho)  watch RDJ yuminess which roughly translates into:

Due Date

Tropic Thunder (dun judge me)

The Singing Detective (I'm curious about this film)

Probably some Gintama episodes too :D 

AND I HAVE PS3 SO WE ARE GONNA PLAY GAMES MWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Someone have any other film recommendations with RDJ?

[ginaspaulklee]

Who tagged me: deathtrilogy

Rules:

  1. post the rules

  2. answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post then make 11 new ones

  3. tag 11 people and link them to your post

  4. let them know you’ve tagged them

People I tag:

too lazy to tag people sorry.

Questions:

Coffee or tea? tea, especially the green tea.

What is your favourite TV show? Um I don't watch TV usually I download anything I want from the net but sometime I watch supernatural

Do you like eating? :3 Do I like eating? YES :) of course A lot ^^ .

How many languages do you know? Arabic, English, a little from Japanese,Korean,French and Spanish I love all these languages very much.

If you could go wherever you want, where would you go? JAPAN .

What’s your favourite season of year? Actually her in Saudi Arabia we don't have 4 seasons we have only summer and winter, very hot or very cold so yeah, but I prefer winter rather than summer :) .

Do you have a pet? Unfortunately no .

Do you like reading books? Books are like drugs for me I cant stay away from them and I enjoy reading very much.

What three words describe you best? Lets see Awkward, honest, and cheerful only with the people I knew ( I don't knew how to deal with strangers).

Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? In real life hell no, in my mind yup a lot, half of them from South Korea and the other half are anime boys :D .

What do you do most often when you have free time? I annoy my little sister ;) .

[joyffree]

Title: Death Isn’t Enough Series: Death Trilogy Book 1 Author: Mariëtte Whitcomb Genre: Psychological Thriller Cover Design: Jabber Media

Noa Morgan worked hard to put the past and Emily behind her. Not that she remembers much about the forty days she spent in captivity.

When Noa realises she is being stalked, she knows it’s him. Despite everything she’s done, he’s found her. And now he’s killing innocent women, leaving an item at each crime scene still vivid in her memory.

With the body count rising, Noa can no longer hide the truth from her new friends. Not if she wants to keep them alive.

The worst part is … that Emily died for nothing.

[quietnisse]

What would you choose for your epitaph? 🤔 This epitaph comes courtesy of Terry Pratchet and is available in my Etsy shop 🔺 💀 #discworld #tomb #wingedskull #grave #cemeterylovers #folkart #wallart #bookstagram #artprint #belasmaldições #livro #neilgaiman #books #gothichome #epitaph #death #illustration #terrypratchett #booklover #bookworm #book #deathtrilogy #bookobsessed #darkartist #skullart #mementomori (at Quiet Nisse Designs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIP7yuoHKh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spockshair]

sound advice, wish I could do that right now

[spockshair]

I JUST WANTED TO SAY that I'm sending her links to torrents to all of the TOS AND YES FIRST PART OF THE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[spockshair]

remember what i said about my friend deathtrilogy last week

we are goiung to watch STID NOW

anD SHE'S GOING TO BE A TREKKIE I DON'T CARE

yesS