Remus likes history, always has. He doesn’t really know why, but he thinks that it’s because he spent so long feeling so alone, only to one day realize that so many have lived before him, and have felt anger the way he does, and love the way he does, and sadness the way he does, so he’s never really been alone. History is cyclical; there’s only so many new experiences to be had. And history has shown them how it ends when band members get together.
Remus won’t let them be Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Or Sonny and Cher. Or Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus. Silver Springs or The Winner Takes It All are beautiful songs, sure, but Remus will not let them have their own versions that define them. He would sooner die than let Sirius Black slip through his fingers, then to write a song about all that they lost. He won’t.
That’s all to say, it’s delicate. They’re delicate. They’re balancing on a tightrope, juggling and keeping everything together. Remus knows there is a slim chance that if he just gave into falling, Sirius might catch him. But, more likely, he’ll simply land with broken bones.
rewatching the HF movies since I feel like I didn't give them a fair shake as individual films on my first go-round. haven't rewatched Spring Song yet, but my opinion already shifted to the nuance of "Lost Butterfly is a sharp decline in pacing, where Presage Flower was actually a pretty good film adaptation"
I actually can't remember how much of my opinion on Spring Song was colored by the quality of Lost Butterfly, so I'll have to think about it in isolation and work out a semidefinitive ranking in my head
Lost Butterfly really fucks up by misunderstanding a lot of important moments and keeping the wrong parts of them, all while wasting time trying to fill in the information gaps it created with less elegant metaphor
"The writing is on the wall right now."
Been thinking about this dynamic specifically.
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bro i'm just lying here thinking about "i want to live" being emiya shirou finally expressing the emotion he's denied himself since he survived the fuyuki fire 10 years ago the emotion he's repressed out of guilt the emotion he's stuffed down the deepest parts of his heart the emotion brought to light after he's spent all this time being the type of person who'd throw his own life away to save another's and now he's clinging to it more than he's ever clung to anything because now he can accept the love and kindness of another person now he can accept being alive and for someone else to want him to live even if living meant suffering sacrifice he wants to carry that with him because living happily with his loved ones would've made illya's death worth it, i would've made all the lives he couldn't save mean something rather than if he just would've just given up his future
There's no salvation in the human world, and if we can't cut evil out as long as we are human... If utopia is in a location where humans cannot ever reach... We seek something that surpasses humans... A new shape of humanity. In order to exclude all evil of this world, we shall risk our lives for this wish.
revised ranking of HF movies: Presage Flower >>> Spring Song >(*) Lost Butterfly (1, 3, 2)
1 is the best by far, 3 is a disaster but a fun one to watch, 2 is mediocre and not actually worse than 3 but it doesn't have as many highs (I am docking a lot of points for how much time was wasted in the forest)
Presage Flower is a good movie and a good adaptation, not afraid to take time and explore the quieter moments as it builds towards its climactic setpiece. the symbolism is beautiful and the visual shorthand works really well. I genuinely like it and have very few complaints about the pacing or what was cut to allow for it
Spring Song is a mess, but a very entertaining one. three good fights, Kirei with his car (and a good adaptation of his flashback), and a bunch of charming shots elevate this up a place. I don't actually think it's the better movie between itself and Lost Butterfly, but it has more scenes I enjoy in isolation. it runs into the Peter Jackson Hobbit problem where action scenes were given too much emphasis and now there's no room to breathe for the important scenes. do you have any idea how messed up the pacing has to be for a two hour movie to feel claustrophobic?
but damn do those short scenes shine
to explain that asterisk, Lost Butterfly is a trainwreck with its greatest crime being that I can't dislike it enough to complain about any one problem. I think I dislike it even more for following such a competently paced movie up with a such a pacing disaster. I've already complained about this, but I'll sum it up by saying that it's more consistently good than Spring Song, but never bothers to take the same risks. it's mediocre and doesn't use its screentime wisely