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Bougar

Bougar

”getting thicker skin” is great in theory but I think for some people “get better at handling your thin skin” is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and that’s the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.

This is great advice because it still recognizes that "handle the situation maturely" still needs to be the endgame.

"okay ❤️ yay ❤️" remains an unmatched response

Hopeful 😃

Even more hopeful. 🦀

Daredevil. Photo from my collection, 1964.

proximity

original image: four panel comic titled "Proximity" by @JNYMFG (op). Each is numbered in the corner, counting from 3 down to 0.

Panel #3 is yellow-toned, with an over-the-shoulder shot of a cheerful man reading the newspaper headline MORE WAR and thinking: "How awful... but I have my own problems!" Panel #2 is orange-toned, showing a distraught woman reading the same headline, and thinking: "But my husband has family there!" Panel #1 is red-toned, showing a pensive man reading the same headline, and thinking: "If I'd stayed, maybe I could have saved them." Panel #0 is entirely blacked out.

reblog image: photo of poem titled The Diameter of the Bomb. Poem reads:

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range - about seven meters. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried where she came from over a hundred kilometers away enlarges the circle greatly. And the lone man who weeps over her death in a far corner of a distant country includes the whole world in the circle. And I won't speak at all about the crying of orphans that reaches to the seat of God and from there onward, making the circle without end and without God.

Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai & Ted Hughes) /end ID

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idk who needs to hear this but you don’t need to do anything to deserve a good life. you already deserve it.

even saying cost of living leaves something bitter in my mouth what kind of fucking phrase is that. vile

so handsome

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

the camerawork and composition of Wake Up Dead Man is incredibly instrumental to the storytelling in a way that I think most people miss if they aren't art students or insane film nerds. (i am said art student and film nerd, my niche is literally camera angles)

Wicks is almost ALWAYS shot in a low angle. (also known as a worm's eye view). This is an angle used to make the subject look larger than they really are (think, a person looking down at the ground). This is used in film to convey power or presence in a scene. This angle conveys authority, power, who's in control in the scene. Now, it can also be used in reverse, but this is not the case with how it's used to frame Wicks. And if he is not in a low angle (rare), he is shown to be in control in other ways, be through other framing devices, or the fact that he is yelling or physically moving towards someone. Even in the scene where Jud is UP ON A LADDER, Wicks is positioned in frame as bigger than him. Wicks is always bigger. (AND WICKS IS SMALLER THAN JUD. JUD IS 6'1".)

And by contrast, Jud is, for most of the film, while interacting with the flock, shot in an level angle. Even if the angle has a slight high or low tilt, he is almost always equal in height or positioning with the other characters in the scene. While yes, he has authority and power over them via his position in the church, he does not abuse that power over them like Wicks does. He is trying to stay on their level. He is equal to them, and sometimes, he's shot in a way that makes him SMALLER than them. Jud is not a short character, and his past would imply he should have power over other characters if he wanted to. But he is small. He does not take up space. (which is another great element to characterization but that's for another post).

The camera angles and shot blocking of this movie are just as instrumental to the emotional storytelling and impact as the lighting is, and I hope it's noticed by more people

And when Blanc shows up, he and Jud are shot almost on equal ground or in a way that shows an equal balance of power. But not always. Blanc is also shown shot in a higher angle, but he’s never encrouching on Jud’s or the cameras space. He has more authority here, but he is not abusing it.

The only time he is shot in the same high angle that Wicks is is when he’s yelling at Jud for lying to him. And yet, he is not shot in that angle the whole time. It breaks out to wide shots. Blanc gives himself room to breathe. He steps back.