ok but one thing i love about goncharov is the ironic subversion of themes. like we have katya, the madonna-like character whose white palette screams of loyalty and purity, while andrey is the judas-like character whose motifs are the dagger and the poisoned cup.
but at the end, it’s katya who draws a gun on goncharov, and andrey who’s left holding his bleeding body in his arms. by having the “loyal wife” be the backstabber and the “doublecrosser” be the broken-hearted lover, scorsese subverts both biblical imagery and gender roles, and he does it in such a subtle and poetic way too, without taking away the complexity of either character.
https://uquiz.com/quiz/8hL5Xi/what-problematic-queer-trope-would-you-be
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“Before I am your daughter, your sister, your aunt, niece, or cousin, I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm.” ― Elizabeth Gracely
another Unforgivable omission from the hunger games movie is when they announce ‘oops jk there can only be 1 winner good luck!’ and katniss immediately, instinctively draws her bow and points it at peeta to kill him, before realizing what shes doing, and who he is, and that she could never/would never want to do that! and then he tells her to do it anyway bc 1 of them has to win! but she WONT so he rips off his tourniquet so he’ll bleed to death and she can win and go home. and she drops to her knees and tries to stop the bleeding and cover his wound and BEGS him not to die……………yeah…they fucked up
Please read “On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart”… please read it… look it’s right here… it has the line “You’re not a boat, you can go under and come up again, with those big old lungs of yours, those hard kicking legs” in it… the first time I read it I burst into tears and sobbed like a child
annabeth was written as a smart blonde to break the "dumb blonde" stereotype. annabeth being black is still breaking down stereotypes as black women and girls are often ignored and undermined in academic spaces
“maybe the curtains are blue because the author just liked the color blue” set human critical thinking skills decades back
Poetic Cinema…
Someone should have told the dude bros that Venom 2 was never meant for them. They should have known that after Venom (2018) made almost a billion at the box office.
to go with my very long raven cycle quote list here
Adam. Adam Parrish was the destination of this road trip. Is there any version of you that could come with me to Cambridge?
Adam. Ronan missed him like a lung.
He could feel his pulse thudding in his jaw. He could hear it in his ears. It sounded like everyone else’s heartbeat, he thought. Just like Adam’s heart when it was resting on his chest.
Ronan’s attention stuck on his hands. Lovely boyish hands with prominent knuckles, gaunt and long like his unfamiliar face. “Who’s that?” Gansey had asked, and Ronan hadn’t answered, just kept hanging out the window. As they passed, Adam’s expression was all contradictions: intense and wary, resigned and resilient, defeated and defiant. Ronan hadn’t known anything about who Adam was then, and, if possible, he’d known even less about who he himself was, but as they drove away from the boy with the bicycle, this was how it had begun: Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to God: please.
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