was sifting through episodes of the bear, looking for moments when carmy smokes for, um, reasons, and i noticed that carmy keeps his cigarettes in his pants pocket and not his apron.
it's such a miniscule detail—one that i'm probably reading way too much into, but it stood out to me. carmy's apron is an item of significance to him. aprons in general in the fine dining world seem to act like an insignia. they're not just part of a uniform, they're a badge of honor. a signifier that you belong to a specific kitchen, a specific community.
he keeps his phone in his apron. he keeps his trusty little spoon in his apron. but not his cigarettes. the one vice that we see carmy indulge in is the one thing he almost separates from the kitchen, and that just tickles my brain in ways i can't fully describe or comprehend.
carmy doesn't smoke in the restaurant, well, usually. we see him smoke outside, and we see him smoke in his apartment (because of course he smokes in his apartment but not the restaurant).
we see carmy smoke in the kitchen once.
it's after the cataclysmic events of e7. carmy's seeing flashes of michael's old invoices, bills that are long past due, the numbers of vendors who are probably on the verge of cutting the restaurant off, and he paces—his anxieties are no longer contained to fidgeting hands. he pauses for a moment as the crew toils away in the background, and then he reaches for his pack of cigarettes.
the stove top clicks and carmy lowers his cigarette to its flame only to be met with an inferno. he backs away and any fear carmy feels is twisted into something else. he's mesmerized, and not just by the flames, but what they promise.
carmy wants nothing more than for the restaurant to burn and his anxieties to burn with it. it's only for a moment but that desire is so encompassing, so irresistible, it leaves him utterly transfixed.
the fire in the kitchen is extinguished, but whatever is burning inside of carmy has only been reduced to embers. it'll get stoked again, and i can't wait 'til it does.
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hi I'm west 's art appreciation professor I'm come to class 5 minutes late every class okauy???
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that scene in titanic where jack and rose are at the third class party dancing and laughing and then it just cuts to cal being in the smoking room surrounded by a bunch of old men....... HE SHOULDVE BEEN AT THE FUCKING CLUB !!
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