#loves e olives

[overstayedtime]

saltburn details that make my brain explode bc theyre so beautifully done

felix & venetia having matching star tattoos

the vampire scene hinting at venetias death

the catton players display with the stones ontop at the end

venetia telling the doppelganger story and seeing a felix doppelganger in the window (hints at felix’s death)

these r some of the details i really love that emerald put into the film & i feel like they add a lot

[elspeth-catton]

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Love At First Sight (2023)

Okay, we’re going to talk about the new Netflix romance directed by Vanessa Caswill, Love At First Sight, because I’m seeing almost no chatter about it and that cannot stand. Full disclosure, I’ve never read the book on which this movie is based, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, so I’m reacting only to the film (which I’ve now seen 4.5 times in 2 days).

The Surface Reading

It’s a perfect, tight, adorable little RomCom that’s heavy on the Rom and light on the Com, with a wrenching dash of angst and the most hair-twirling chemistry between two leads that has graced our screens in years. Truly, if all you want is 90 minutes of two actors being saccharine precious cinnamon rolls, look no further!

There are simple takeaways here, like that chance can only take you so far, but in the end you have to choose to love. Or that change and loss are part of life and you can’t run from them. Or that London is a massive labyrinth of eccentric people that probably looks 400% cooler onscreen than it is in reality (I wouldn’t know, I’ve never visited, so this and the 90s Parent Trap are the extent of my knowledge about the city, sorry).

Anyway, I adored how straightforward the story was - that the narrator (played brilliantly by Jameela Jamil) tells you directly in the first two minutes that it’s a story about love, fate, and statistics. She then repeatedly describes every development as it is happening, the characters’ histories and internal monologues, and all the context you need to follow the thin but fast-paced plot. The writing, performances, and production design are all solid, allowing the audience to get lost in the romance as it unfolds.

BUT if you’re slightly unhinged like I am and you’re always looking for more layers in your media, HAVE NO FEAR! There is in fact more going on in this little movie than you might expect.

Color Theory

For starters, the use of red and green in the film is fascinating. Yes, I realize the action of the story takes place a few days before Christmas, so you might assume it was just a seasonal aesthetic choice, but if you look closer, you can see very carefully selected shades of red and green repeating throughout the film. The red is a cool, deep rose color, sometimes pink, while the green is cool and dark, like oxidized bronze rather than emerald. Further, while they appear over and over, these hues are rarely used in a purely decorative or festive way. Instead, they play a role in the separation and coming together of the couple. On a color wheel, red and green are complements, perfect opposites that are never adjacent but always joined in the middle.

The title card during Hadley’s introduction is literally a green stripe over a red stripe, then the hallways of the airport are green, and of course Hadley’s ever-important backpack is a rosy red. As the couple grow closer on their flight, the light turns pink. Once in London, a green van takes Oliver one way while a red taxi takes Hadley the other. At her father’s wedding, Hadley is dressed in red (“the color of a bruise” she calls it), contrasting beautifully against her green jacket. Upon realizing Oliver’s true purpose, she chases after him on an iconic red double-decker bus. Meanwhile at the living memorial, Oliver’s father is dressed in red while his mother wears a faded green, as if to say she is already beginning to fade away. The event is decorated with green drapery and streamers, and there are even stacks of red and green chairs in the stairwell where Oliver begs his mother to receive treatment.

Hadley gifts her red and green bouquet to Tessa, and when she is driven away, a green-clad narrator returns the red backpack to Oliver. Wandering London alone, Hadley exchanges her painful red heels for a pair of green trainers (“sneakers!” she insists), and tries to call her dad first in a red phone booth and then on a phone from a stranger sitting in a cluster of red chairs. Finally, Oliver chooses to pursue Hadley to the wedding reception which is lit in pink, and where they finally share the long-awaited kiss.

There are many more examples, but in general we see that green indicates separation and loss, while red symbolizes joining, intimacy, and (what else?) love! It lends the film a gorgeous, subtle aesthetic without being garishly festive, and shows the lovers’ emotional journey from lonely childhood to vulnerable, loving adulthood.

Death and Rebirth

Speaking of which, there’s plenty of rebirth imagery too! When Hadley and Oliver meet, they are both still children, struggling with the impending loss of parental security through divorce and death. Thus, when they board the plane, it is as if they enter an underworld or womb, separated from their families and remade as new adults. They emerge on the other side into a hallway (read: birth canal), as each must still confront their own dying childhood before they can join as full and equal partners. Hadley journeys to a bright, red-strewn celebration of life, while Oliver must enter a dark green commemoration of death, his fear driving him deeper to hide in another hallway. Here his mother comes to find him, begging him to emerge into life, but Ollie still can’t confront her death alone.

Thankfully, Hadley travels to this underworld to find him, bursting into the memorial like a bright red flower. Even the bruise metaphor works, acknowledging the pain they are both experiencing at the changes in their lives. But Oliver still refuses to face his fears, trying to take a shortcut around death to life with Hadley. Still, she knows he’s not ready (likely because she’s not yet, either), and gently pushes back. And so, Oliver returns to the underworld, and Hadley walks off alone until she descends barefoot through a soggy riverside tunnel (birth canal again!). Finally, she calls her father and admits she is “lost.” When he arrives, Hadley at last gathers the courage to ask why he ended their old life, and to tell him how much it hurt her. But as Oliver predicted, she forgives her dad and even begins to accept his new bride.

Back at the memorial, Oliver is reminded by Hadley’s red backpack - his unaddressed emotional baggage - to be honest about his pain. In at last openly mourning his mother and his own childhood, Ollie takes a step into adulthood, just enough for his family to nudge him that extra bit to go after Hadley. And so, the family delivers him to his bride, who has meanwhile learned to dance again, even through her heartbreak. With one last confession, the two consummate their love with a kiss, bathed in pink light before an open door.

Happily Ever After

There’s so much more, with the hand-holding, numbers, Shakespeare, Dickens, the music, and beyond, but the point is that this cute, charming little romance is actually very deliberately constructed. It follows timeless patterns and motifs which we instinctively understand through visual and auditory language. And the narration plays a huge role in this as well, not unlike the prologues and epilogues of the Bard’s plays in that they state the story’s lessons plainly: that we cannot always be prepared for unwelcome surprises, but that we can make the choice to love every day.

Anyway, Vanessa Caswill deserves all the flowers and if you haven’t seen her gorgeous adaptation of Little Women (with all due respect to the marvelous Greta Gerwig and Gillian Armstrong), please do yourself a favor and watch that after you finish this!

[confusion-est]

can ticket jerry drop from heaven, I need discord invite and I'm too shy to ask dogman himself

[al3x-xxxx]

Drawings w my friends hahaha

[hms-incorrect-quotes]

Soul: The waiter at Olive Garden has been grating my cheese for 6 hours now, waiting for me to say when. Customers are screaming. Three people have died.

Soul: I will not yield.

[pvtchurch]

old first? old people?

no no no. you go. ladies first.

ah, thank you darling 💜

[moonyssmommyy]

~James Potter Variants~

(These are all from left to right btw)

Top Row: Joey Tribbiani, Alvin Seville, and Percy Jackson

Middle Row: Finnick Odair, Hanna Marin, and Oliver Wood

Bottom Row: Scott McCall, Lightning McQueen, and Steve Harrington

✨TV Shows & Movies✨

Joey Tribbiani is from Friends (TV Show)

Alvin is from Alvin and The Chipmunks (Movie)

Percy Jackson is from Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief (Movie)

Finnick Odair is from Catching Fire (Movie)

Hanna Marin is from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

Oliver Wood is from Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone (Movie)

Scott McCall is from Teen Wolf (TV Show)

Lightning McQueen is from Cars (Movie)

Steve Harrington is from Stranger Things (TV Show)

Ok but like the asshole to babygirl arc that James and Steve share is actually so special to me

[evillandscaper]

we did it boys !!!!!!!!! dalila bela (she's so cool she's so cool she's so cool she's so cool she's so cool she's so c)

timelapse under the cut :3

[ladyelainehilfur]

Olive from Odd Squad was in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies 🥺 awwww baby Olive is adorableeee

[ryuki-draws]

going on a blitz today following a bunch of blogs that make fnaf art (presently or in the past)

you are now one of them congration good stuff, i like the clear expressions and lines!!!

-Miki

Hello! :D Even though I don't actively draw for FNaF anymore (maybe I'll return with something one day, who knows!) I'm glad you like my stuff! There are definitely FNaF pieces I'm still very fond of, thank you for such a nice message! ♥

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

In honour of it being FE race week...

Part 3 of me looking at what the UK number one songs were when racing drivers were born. This time it's the FE grid (with a lot of track sharing going on here 😂)

Andre Lotterer - (19th November 1981) - Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

Lucas Di Grassi - (11th August 1984) - George Michael - Careless Whisper

Rene Rast - (26th October 1986) - Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins

Sam Bird - (9th January 1987) & Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite

Sebastien Buemi - (31st October 1988) - Enya - Orinoco Flow

Jean-Eric Vergne - (25th April 1990) - Madonna - Vogue

Robin Frijns - (7th August 1991) & Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

Nico Mueller - (25th February 1992) & Stoffel Vandoorne - (26th March 1992) - Shakepeare's Sister - Stay

Norman Nato - (8th July 1992) - Erasure - Abba-Esque

Oliver Rowland - (10th August 1992) - Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer

Jake Hughes - (30th May 1994), Mitch Evans - (24th June 1994) & Nick Cassidy (19th August 1994) - Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

Pascal Wehrlein - (18th October 1994) - Take That - Sure

Jake Dennis - (16th June 1995) - Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody

Kelvin Van Der Linde - (20th June 1996) - Fugees - Killing Me Softly

Max Gunther - (2nd July 1997) - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You

Sergio Sette Camara - (23rd May 1998) - The Tamperer & Maya - Feel It

Dan Ticktum - (8th June 1999) - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Sacha Fenestraz - (28th July 1999) - Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

David Beckmann - (27th April 2000) - Fragma - Toca's Miracle

All added to this playlist 😊

[famiyazzz]

[molliemoo3]

Whats with the Brits causing chaos on the last lap?????

[yoshistory]

& also the normal collar i got for Olive that i had to get to hold the e-collar in place is very cute. i got a cute one so that i could maybe use it even after she's done needing the e-collar and its very cuted .. i havent gotten a pic of her with it on but its this one

feels like nintendogs type a wear. i also think it is very "Olive"

[urlbecca]

When the Miami Grand Prix is on the same weekend as the Monaco EPrix