The Holy Trinity.
shauna eating jackie isn't cannibalism as a metaphor for love... it's cannibalism as a metaphor for obsession. tai eating van's heart, and travis eating javi's; those were love, but shauna didn't softly bite into jackie's heart, she ate into her ribs frenzied and desperate and wrong, as if she could never get enough of jackie, as if she could spend the next 25 years looking for every way to consume jackie again because she lost the real thing...
Ben gets too much hate imo because like could you imagine being a grown ass man stranded in the wilderness with a bunch of teenage girls? That alone is a nightmare, not to mention that the girls in question are literally insane. One thinks she can fly a plane. One is unmediated and having hallucinations. One wanted to have unprotected sex and would’ve ended up pregnant had you not stepped in. One IS pregnant with her best friend’s boyfriend’s baby. One cut your fucking leg off and has tried to drug you multiple times. And NONE of them will listen to you because apparently your authority and adulthood means nothing here so screw you I’m gonna fly a janky ass plane with no training! Screw you I’m going outside in the cold with no survival instincts! Also SURPRISE! Cannibalism! Child murder! Cult! We’re going to kill you!
Only one person died. Only one singular person. In a superhero movie! The type that love to throw around casualty counts like it’s all a big game, waving off 70 people being killed in a handful of days like it’s no big deal, yet only ONE PERSON died.
And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.
The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.
(Hawkgirl does kill SHEIN Netanyahu but genocidal dictators don’t count as human beings lol.)
clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you
excuse me for stating the obvious but like. james gunn outright calling superman an immigrant and doubling down on it when he got backlash (because he IS an immigrant, that's the point of superman) + the in-movie dialogue of "aren't you going to read me my rights?" "you're an extraterrestrial, son. you haven't got any rights to read." + the violence of his arrest and how they torture and mistreat him unapologetically, all under the guise of "protecting america", in a film releasing during the onslaught of violent ICE kidnappings and abuse... yeah it's really no wonder right-wing knobheads are crying about this being woke. they're being forced to look directly at the reasons one of the most well-known and beloved heroes of all time would not be on their side. and that's only ONE of the reasons this movie covers
there's an episode of malcolm in the middle where he just shuts up and stops complaining for awhile and it immediately starts to significantly improve his life but also it causes him an ulcer and by the end of the episode he is literally spitting up blood and i have always deeply and unshakably believed that is exactly how the situation would play out for me too









