scarletjohansson
scarletjohansson
toneelspeelsterI can’t get over how much the episode 2 crazy emotionally intimate first time anal sequence sets up for the entire rest of the show but especially episode 6. we see them joking with each other and horsing around and racing each other up the stairs. the playfulness of oh you missed meeee and mister landlord mister businessman. the warmth and coziness of the setting… the first time they’re not in a hotel room but in shane’s house, just this private sheltered space that feels so safe. the incredible tenderness of the sex scene where so much of it is shot in this way that makes you feel soooo close to them, so right there with them in their feelings, in this suspended-in-time moment that feels totally private and wholly theirs. ilya’s gentleness and shane letting himself fully, fully relax into it. the two of them taking such good care of each other. the stairwell scene after where shane’s just talking to keep him there and ilya’s lingering because he doesn’t want to leave. that KISS and the way shane watches him all drowsy and content. I feel like that scene is what makes shane so sure about ilya later. what enables him to keep muddling forward even when ilya’s fear is making everything so murky and confused and painful between them. that’s shane’s north star memory, man. he doesn’t know how they’re gonna get to where he wants them to be but he knows what it’ll feel like when they get there.
@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always