I fucking love the Knives Out movies. I love the different cast every movie concept, I love Benoit Blanc and his ridiculous accent, I love how they always come out around christmas for some reason, I love how original they are, I love a murder mystery. give me 14 of these films and I will eat them up
WHAT THE BEAR ACTUALLY IS
This show already provided us with a direct definition of what the bear really is, and they gave it to us in Fishes, nonetheless.
These are our keys to understanding this. The Bear is a person with all these attributes.
I have been coming back and forth on my perspective on Carmy leaving the Bear for the past week, because the declaration of Sydney being the Bear defyes everything I related to that symbol before, but, upon futter thinking, I don't think I was too far off.
For the past three seasons, I have related "the bear" to a trauma response, linking it to the bear being the person or identity used by members of the Berzatto family as a coping mechanism. In this context, Michael's bear, Natalie's bear, and Carmy's bear were different because the three siblings adopted different coping mechanisms in response to the stressful environments in which they grew up. That's why the show begins with him "releasing" the bear, as a way to release his trauma. The show would serve as a metaphorical exercise to release trauma, hence why it's so chaotic and intense in its display of emotions. Here was my mistake: I thought the bear was a beast to be tamed, or, for a better term, healed. That the bear will disappear or become more docile as Carmy's healing journey progresses, liberating he wounded child underneath.
However, the bear cannot be merely reduced to a trauma response; even if trauma is heaving involved.
The bear it is an identity, one that has been formed despite the trauma. It's a calling, a declaration of the true intent and nature of a soul. Carmy's and Sydney's souls.
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sometimes when a movie starts there is a scary lion but don't be scared
— Natalie Diaz, Manhattan Is a Lenape Word
are we sure the only way out is through? like. are we sure we can't just. go around
Blue hydrangea after rain.
Shiga, Japan.
I cant stop thinking about The Boy and the Heron.
It's horrifying. It's fantastical. It's tragic. It's beautiful. It's hopeful.
It's about grief. It's about family. It's about war. It's, "You don't have to walk the same path your ancestors did." It's "Your lived experience builds a world as deserving of your attention and care as your inner world" and "You inherited a flawed world, and you are flawed, and that is still beautiful" and "I made this beautiful thing and it's ending and that's just how it goes, but wasn't it beautiful?"
It makes me think about the worlds we make within ourselves and how they can be entrancing and wonderful even as they lead us to walk deeper into ourselves and away from those around us. It makes me think about connection, about how love can be so flawed sometimes but it is still something we need to hold onto. It asks "What if the monsters never asked to be monsters?" and "What if things can die before they're even born?"
It's about not being afraid of fire, not being afraid of endings, not being afraid of the world falling apart, of pain, of walking away, of reconciling, of finding new family and new love even as you mourn and miss what you lost.
It says, "Beautiful, wonderful things end, but afterwards, you can go home."
I'm going crazy.
I need everyone to understand about the fremen.
They do not cry. Ever.
To give water to the dead is the most sacred honor that anyone could give but they rarely and never do that because it's ingrained in them to not waste water from birth. A single tear could mean life and death for them. To give water to the living? Unheard of.
Paul crying over killing Jamis in the book was a moment that astonished the fremen around him. Jessica ponders their reactions and knows that this is a holy moment.
Jessica then forcing Chani to cry for Paul(this was not in the book btw but I love it) is the ultimate betrayal of her autonomy. To force her to give what is essentially a piece of her life to him without her consent is sacrilegious and she knows it.
Water of Life indeed.
SUCCESSION (2018-2023)
