Happy 32nd, John Boyega.
On the set of Juel Taylor’s They Cloned Tyrone (2023).
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I've seen a lot of people critiquing Lisa and the Creature because their murders are unjustified and petty therefore THEY'RE TERRIBLE CHARACTERS
1) It's a slasher comedy. You're supposed to suspend your disbelief... they're the villains, the story is just told from their perspective
2)"How could the audience ever root for these people?" Lisa is a traumatized girl who had to deal with an axe murderer killing her mother. The real horror of that event isn't even the trauma she experienced. It's how she was treated afterwards that's mind-boggling. Nobody bothered to help her out and she was systemtically punished for not fitting in- which is the reality of many mentally unstable/disabled/traumatized people.
Lisa's struggle is very relatable, she just acts the ultimate fantasy out: she actively kills/is complicit in the murder of those who failed her (and, very symbolically, she often kills them with an axe, the weapon used to kill her mother)
She emotionally relies on the only person who actually cared for her and took time to understand her: the creature.
Are her actions justified? Of course not. None of those people deserved death. It's a revenge fantasy movie. The real victim is Taffy, who inherits Lisa's trauma and grief after her own mother gets murdered. Lisa perpetuates this horrible cycle of abuse, BECAUSE NO ONE CARED TO HELP HER. The world's apathy is the ultimate villain.
I still root and empathize with Lisa because I get it. Bro, I've been abused. When your trauma gets brushed off as an inconvenience by the people who are supposed to cherish you and protect you, you start to understand Lisa's actions.
But as always, the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor. (I DONT PISS ON THE POOR!!!)
Also big W for the diy bottom surgery and death is temporary love is forever. ♡
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This is fabulous. It is? You're in the dark period. Before light and wisdom come to you. You must forge through it, and once on the other side... you will be grateful to this moment. But you must keep going.
POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
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Getting into silent film history is frustrating bc first you'll learn that around mid-century, when history of silent film began, they had access to relatively few films, and so a lot of misconceptions resulted from that ignorance. They only had D.W. Griffith and few other early films, so they assigned him Great Man relevance over all basic filmmaking. Even things like "everyone assumed Marion Davies was a talentless hack propped up by William Randolph Hearst bc they wrongfully thought a character in Citizen Kane was based on her, and had none of her films to go off of" (Orson Welles hated that one and repeatedly tried to correct it, btw)
But now, with more access to silent film than any time since the silent era, literally all the misconceptions still exist and are widespread bc no one bothers to watch all those films. We can increase access, but we can't make film teachers not just show Birth of a Nation (or, let's be honest, clips from Birth of a Nation) in utter isolation from the rest of early film and call it a day, oh and next we'll cover Intolerance, which is an apology for the racism our class downplayed, dontchaknow (it isn't)
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