when i say i care more about this shell with a single googly eye than most members of my extended family i am not joking. what a delight
funny sweet cute beautiful and deeply sad but also hopeful. about the pandemic, the internet, making art, making friends, losing a loved one, taking risks, having fun, letting yourself love the world even though it is huge and alien and terrifying
loved this one soooooo much definitely gonna be a top 2022 one for me
soft and glittering fabrics, gleaming jewels, rich carpets, slow and deliberate movement, dialogue that seems to come from everyone and no one, a house so still and full of poison that every hum and grunt sounds loud and full of pain, smoke wafted through a room to ward off evil, a hand drawn gently against a fragile wrist, a piece of metal to the heart or to the head—a series of shakespearean deaths that finally release us into the outside world, where we can breathe again
watched @ the trylon
watching this with someone who's never seen it before is like maybe the most fun you can have
we followed up black swan (2010, dir. darren aronofsky) with acclaimed 1999 disney channel original movie the thirteenth year (dir. duwayne dunham) in which a small child wearing a tuba falls into a pool and screams "i can't swim!" and an entire middle school swim team and their adult coach just go "meh" and leave him to drown
cody griffin pulling badly cgi'd scales out of his hands vs. nina sayers pulling feathers out of her back... cinematic parallels
the lead actor's name is chez starbuck so let that sink in
the song playing over the ending credits had me really howling
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