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her aim is not getting better, she down bad

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Two movies I like

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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I am what God made me. And perhaps it is my difference that will make me useful. I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist between the world’s certainties.

CONCLAVE (2024)

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Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024)

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well this has broken me

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"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen."

Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks.

(via: kodaklosers)

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“Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today’s version of “seize him” imo

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Meet me in the woods by Lord Huron you will ALWAYS be that bitch

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sherlock and merlin cast’s reaction to “and the NTA goes to… downton abbey” will never not be hilarious

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Words from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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bbc merlin - 04x06 A Servant of Two Masters

terrible assassin/oblivious himbo you are so dear to me

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Sir Elyan

This took me 21.5 hours I hope you like it 🥲 I'm never drawing chain mail again

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can you believe it's been 16 years since arthur pendragon invented bisexuality

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its so sad that radfem just means transphobe and not like. this