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sloshed-cinema · 8 months

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The Medium [ร่างทรง] (2021)

I never want to hear the name ‘Mink’ uttered ever again. This film more than met my quota, screamed out, intoned, shouted, cried, you name it. All of these calls go out to the lost soul and victim-cum-antagonist of the film, a young woman who appears to be the next chosen shaman for the local deity Ba Yan, but is instead the vessel for something much darker. This disproves the enlightened centrism of The Exorcist: Believer—while ceremonies to rid a body of demons may be common the world over in a superficial sense, the procedures required to carry that out are incredibly culturally and spiritually specific. When The Medium gets to its pivotal ceremony, it’s incredibly intricate and chaotic and direct, all webs of white threads and sigils and gongs. This, along with the more formal documentarian style of the opening stretch was what filled me with hope for this film. It didn’t seem to want to resort to cheap, corny found footage nonsense that’s been rehashed infinite times before by this point. It’s disappointing that the film wants to have its cake and eat it too. The immediate leadup to the exorcism is a ClifsNotes version of Paranormal Activity, all spooky scares presented like flash cards, and when things go south with the ceremony it quickly becomes just more shaky-cam chaos as people get killed left and right due to poor decision-making and listening skills. Horror can be pulpy and visceral, but it should still feel original. Tropes are a shorthand tool, not a crutch.

In a way, the film doubly slights the viewer. A central through-line seeks to comment on the conflict between religions in Thailand. In the Isan region, as the opening narration notes, the handling of spirituality is very specific, upheld since time immemorial. Buddhism intertwines with this for many, performed in reserved fashion as the titular shaman Nim favors, or with a more tent-revival flair as fellow practitioner Santi prefers. But Christianity exists, too, and a facet of this trauma emerges from Nim’s sister rejecting her faith for another. This factors into the tragic outcome, Noi repeatedly asked to take Ba Yan back into her heart but never fully accepting. But this operates on a purely surface level. Where a film like The Wailing uses a conflict like this not only on an aesthetic or plot level, but also to comment on social conflicts through a lens of horror, The Medium simply points to a disparity and says “this exists.” Thanks, I kinda noticed that before.

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says 'Mink'.

Someone is standing menacingly in a scene.

Intertitles appear in a scene.

BIG DRINK

Nim cracks an egg.

The documentarians are told to stop filming.

The film needlessly repeats itself.

#drinking games #the medium #rang song #horror #horror & thriller #thai cinema #banjong pisanthanakun #found footage horror #found footage

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haleyusesherwords · 2 months

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Alex really said: In my first season of Dimension 20, I played the tiniest little boy who was the physical embodiment of a man’s conscience. What would be a good character to choose for my second season? Ah yes. An absolute unit of a mob boss. The logical next step.

#truly the range #it’s fantastic #and the way their humor and comedy worked with both of those character is hilarious #alex song xia #no one is doing it like you #dimension 20 #d20 #nsbu #never stop blowing up #mentopolis

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wizardnuke · 15 days

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hozier songs are all "i wouldn't be here without black artists" "you should kill your boss" "i love ireland :(" "DO Y OU NEED A DOG. I CAN BARK"

#the range is so funny to me genuinely. here's a song about black artists. here's a song about the war machine. here's a love song #intermixed with observations that Shits Bad Out There but i love you :'). wish i could hear my countries language spoken more often but #no! colonialism took that! hhhey babe can y ou pull my hair. you can do anything pleas e #i love you (we're better than god) i love you (*bass drum thumping* I GIVE HEAD)

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dykealloy · 8 months

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just a silly little guy

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lowpolyanimals · 1 year

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K.K. Slider from Animal Crossing: Wild World

#kk slider #dog #animal crossing #animal crossing wild world #thank you for your submission!#can't believe i haven't posted this king yet #he has the range!!#tell me your fav kk song in the notes!!#my fav official kk song literally changes daily but SO to: steep hill - marine song 2001 - go KK rider - DJ KK - KK Etude - KK Fugue -#KK Jonghara - KK Lovers - KK Marathon - KK Mariachi - KK Condor - KK Ragtime & ofc KK Disco although literally every song of his is perfect #fav unofficial kk song is KK Deja Vu #everyone go check out @kk-slider-covers-nobody-wanted #thanks op for outing me as a kk slider stan

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acebytaemin · 6 months

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#HOW ARE WE FEELING.? you ask how we are feeling. god.#the worst thing is that he’s genuinely so fucking cute w it 😭 all the while making my head spin w all the balkan songs i would have him #shaking ass to like. the turmoil. the full range of reactions can be found within my head rn #stray kids #medvjedić lino

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mikuirin · 8 months

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IMI WAKANNEEEE!!!

#artists on tumblr #art #fanart #project sekai #wonderlands x showtime #tenma tsukasa #rui kamishiro #emu otori #nene kusanagi #TSUKASA'S GROWL AND RUI'S RANGE AAAAAAA #im genuinely sorry for anyone who heard me screeching when i heard this song #i wanted to post this when the event was on but exams haha ;-;

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babblingbonnabel · 1 month

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🥁 | hurray for Imp and Skizz!!

Other Hermitcraft x Soul Eater designs: Stress + Iskall

#impulsesv #skizzleman #hermitcraft #soul eater #✩ | bonnies scribbles!#THEIR OUTFITS ARE BASED ON ALL THE COOL PARTS OF DRUMLINE OUTFITS I SAW!!#i cant remember how wavelengths work exactly but i think it would be so cool if at least some of them resembled songs -#- so that this pair could work for their combo move!!!#they can use each other in weapon form and carry around 'decoy sticks' that look like each others weapon form to make a pair when fighting #for sure close range weapons for a bunch of moves!!! i imagine the 'drum' would be their opponents body #they hit pressure points -- im really just looking at a deep/loud sound - like the one where you can feel your whole heart shaking #i think they would for sure also hit points in the ground as well - like in structures that have weak points - especially with Skizz #imp's little holder on the top bar of his outfit is magnetic and can move!! it usually holds sticks or other smaller weapons!#they usually look for a meister who can drum/they think has any rhythm as opposed to using each other #their wavelengths are extremely different - which makes their combo move: Polyrhythm Rupture! very hard to pull off #Imp is for sure used for closer percise range - while Skizz is used as chaotic sporadic damage #yay for youtube helping me figure out things!

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wakkossnackstash · 10 months

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He loves music so much you guys 🥺💙

#I love how much the warners love music #i like to think they each have their own playlists #wakko's would have such a huge range of songs on it #from “i am now going to bark at you” to Night on Bald Mountain #anyway #animaniacs #wakko warner #wakky art #wakko

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 2 years

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It's gonna be my BIRTHDAY soon and I really need to rustle up some CASH so if u feel like this blog has made your life MEASURABLY WORSE (or just weirder) over the past year, perchance consider tipping your town fool? THANK YOU (kofi / paypal)

#i am wiggling the bells on my stupid hat in a suggestive and inappropriate manner #I'm a public jester in the sense that i am constantly in the town square singing bawdy songs & hitting myself in the face w/ garden rakes #despite the fact that literally nobody requested my presence #so not a jester not nearly of a high enough class to be a jester #a rodeo clown perhaps #...quick someone make a alignment chart of tumblr funnymen the categories are #first axis ranges from Court Jester to Town Fool #second axis is just clowns. Mimes. Rodeo Clowns. Circus Towns. Villainous Clowns #I have no idea how you would organize that spectrum but surely it must exist. the Spectrum of Clowns

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9ullmans · 3 months

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